Star⭐️ Flashcards

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Nebulas are held together by what two forces?

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Gravity and heat

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Stars begin from dark clouds of?

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Dust and gas

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How many stages does our sun go through to become star in main sequence

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7

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Stage one is called?

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Interstellar cloud

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What do we call newly formed area that will soon become a star?

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Opaque region

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Ability to plot movement of a protostar

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Evolutionary track

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Dark clouds of dust and gas are called?

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Nebulas

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Nebulas come from? And the matter in between stars is called?

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Interstellar space

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Two things happen to light when light from stars shines through it?

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Reddening- freq of color remain the same

Dims

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What is rarer to find in interstellar space? Gas or dust?

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Dust - trillion gas molecules and 1 dust

Gas - in 1 cm3 of space is 1 atom of gas

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Interstellar space is made up of what two elements?

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9% helium

90% hydrogen

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Dirty ice is in interstellar is similar to what other body?

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Comets

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These clouds of dust and gas are so thick they block out all background light

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Dark nebula

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If a cloud has hot young stars forming within it, it can glow this tho of cloud?

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Emission nebula

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Reflection nebulas are created by this?

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Blue light reflecting

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Dark areas amongst nebulas are called?

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Dark dust clouds

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Absolute zero temperature in kelvin and Celsius?

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0 kelvin

-273 Celsius

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Key element of our sun or any other star

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Hydrogen

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In 5 billion years this will be the main element of our sun

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When the helium core “fires up” and the hydrogen burns is called what?

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Hydrogen shell burning

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As hydrogen burns and temp and size increase in a star what also increases?

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Luminosity

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How hot does core have to be to fuse helium

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10,000,000 Celsius

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When helium fuses to into carbon it is called

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Helium flash

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90% of stars life is spent here?

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Main sequence

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Low mass stars end life's? | High mass stars end life's?
``` Low= calm High= violent ```
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Death of stars gives universe what?
Heavier elements
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Before Big Bang there was this
Hydrostatic equilibrium
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As red giant grows and develops it is formed into two distinct areas
Exposed core | Dust cloud
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As envelope of red giant is blown off it gets illuminated by the core below. This cloud is called
Planetary nebula
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As Core contracts it forms this(not very hot but not to bright)
White dwarf
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When white dwarf burns out it becomes
Black dwarf
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If a white dwarf releases a lot of energy it is a process called
NOVA
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if a NOVA reoccurs over and over again it's called
Recurrent NOVA
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Our sun is called?
1 solar mass star
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Where would you find low and high mass stars
Low mass are on bottom | High mass are on top
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Stars that are to small to ever ignite into a true star
Clinkers
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System of stars with two members
Binary system
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Two types of clusters
Open- loose irregular, young stars | Globular- oldest stars, millions, no blue
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Chase each other and never twinkle
Visual binaries
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Clusters are hard o se and form where?
Nebulas
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Supergiants have the strongest what?
Solar wind
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In less then 1 second the core of a supergiant can undo all the work that the star has done the previous 10 million years in a process known as
Photodisintegrarion
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When the core collapse
Core collapse supernova
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Dividing mass long between white dwarf and supernova?
8 solar masses
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Type 1 supernovas get mass needed from what?
Binary star
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After a star explodes into a supernova the leftovers are called
Supernova remnants
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Naturally occurring elements made in the cores of stars? (8 of them)
``` Helium Sulfur Magnesium Oxygen Silicon Carbon Neon ```