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Question	Answer
The color of a star depends on its	Temperature
What can a scientists learn about a star from its spectrum?	Its composition and temperature
Why do black lines appear on an absorption spectrum?	They show where less light is abosorbed by a star's atmosphere
What color are the hottest stars?	Blue
The brightness of a star at a distance of 32.6 light-years from Earth.	Absolute magnitude
The brightness of a star as it appears to an observer on Earth.	Apparent Magnitude
an apparent shift in an object's position when viewed from different locations	Parallax
The distance that light travels in one year.	light-year
The band of color produced when white light passes through a prism	spectrum
The H-R diagram shows the relationship of a star's surface temperature and its	absolute resolution
What objects are formed from the materials in the core of a supernova?	Black holes and neutron stars
What is the correct sequence of a star's life cycle?	main sequence, red giant, and white dwarf
How do new stars form?	From the material of old stars.
A small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old star	white dwarf
a gigantic explosion that causes the death of a large star	supernova
a star in which the electrons and protons have become neurons	neutron star
a star that expands and cools once it runs out of hydrogen	red giant
a spinning neutron star that emits rapid pulses of radio and optical energy	pulsar
a massive and dense object from which even light cannot escape its gravity	black hole