Stars
This is the largest star in our solar system
What is The Sun?
This is what light-years measure
What is Distance?
Name the eight planets in our solar system in order
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
A planet outside of our solar system, orbiting another star
What is an Exoplanet?
A body that directly orbits the sun has a spherical shape but has not cleared other objects from its orbital path
What is a Dwarf Planet?
New stars form in a cloud of gases called
What is a Nebula?
The study of planets, stars, and other cosmic bodies and how they work and interact with one another
What is Astrophysics?
These planets in our solar system are known as ice giants
What are Uranus and Neptune?
A rocky body that orbits the sun, is larger than 1 meter across, and is not large enough to be spherical
What is an Asteroid?
A low-mass star that burns cooler, but much longer than an average star
What is a Red Dwarf?
True or False. Constellations are groups of stars in the sky that form a pattern. Every culture names the same groups, and the names are absolute.
What is False?
The constellations are arbitrary and depend on the culture that names them.
What is The Big Bang Theory?
What is the universe began as a speck containing everything and is expanding and constantly changing?
These planets in our solar system are known as gas giants
An old star that has used up most of its fuel, but grows up to 100x its original size
What is a Red Giant?
A space object made of frozen gases and rock that is orbiting a star
What is a Comet?
Name the star classification system in order.
What is O, B, A, F, G, K, M?
The Milky Way is this kind of shaped galaxy
What is Spiral?
This moon phase has no visible Moon
What is a New Moon?
A large spherical body that orbits a star and clears other objects of a similar size out of its path
What is a Planet?
A star that has completely used up all of its hydrogen fuel and collapses into its gravity, still glows white-hot, but will slowly cool down
What is a White Dwarf?
Describe the life cycle of a star.
What is a Nebula to a Protostar to a Main Sequence Star, a Red Giant, and then cooling down to either a White or a Black Dwarf?
This telescope has found over 4,000 exoplanets
What is The Kepler Telescope?
What is False?
It is found between Jupiter and Mars.
A star with a high enough mass to end its life in a supernova explosion, and is composed completely of neutrons because its intense gravity crushes protons and electrons together to make neutrons
What is a Neutron Star?
Stars in the prime of life, burning hydrogen gas in their cores, converting it into helium and releasing enormous amounts of energy in the process
What are Main Sequence Stars?