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Astronomy Star Quiz
Astronomy Star Quiz Winneconne MS
Question | Answer |
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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 Magnitude |
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 |