Star⭐️ Flashcards
Nebulas are held together by what two forces?
Gravity and heat
Stars begin from dark clouds of?
Dust and gas
How many stages does our sun go through to become star in main sequence
7
Stage one is called?
Interstellar cloud
What do we call newly formed area that will soon become a star?
Opaque region
Ability to plot movement of a protostar
Evolutionary track
Dark clouds of dust and gas are called?
Nebulas
Nebulas come from? And the matter in between stars is called?
Interstellar space
Two things happen to light when light from stars shines through it?
Reddening- freq of color remain the same
Dims
What is rarer to find in interstellar space? Gas or dust?
Dust - trillion gas molecules and 1 dust
Gas - in 1 cm3 of space is 1 atom of gas
Interstellar space is made up of what two elements?
9% helium
90% hydrogen
Dirty ice is in interstellar is similar to what other body?
Comets
These clouds of dust and gas are so thick they block out all background light
Dark nebula
If a cloud has hot young stars forming within it, it can glow this tho of cloud?
Emission nebula
Reflection nebulas are created by this?
Blue light reflecting
Dark areas amongst nebulas are called?
Dark dust clouds
Absolute zero temperature in kelvin and Celsius?
0 kelvin
-273 Celsius
Key element of our sun or any other star
Hydrogen
In 5 billion years this will be the main element of our sun
Helium
When the helium core “fires up” and the hydrogen burns is called what?
Hydrogen shell burning
As hydrogen burns and temp and size increase in a star what also increases?
Luminosity
How hot does core have to be to fuse helium
10,000,000 Celsius
When helium fuses to into carbon it is called
Helium flash
90% of stars life is spent here?
Main sequence