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1
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The name of our galaxy?

A

Milky Way

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2
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The offical shape of our galaxy?

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Pinwheel

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3
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How many stars are in our galaxy?

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400 billion

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4
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A big cloud of dust and gas?

A

Nebula

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5
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The beginning ingredient for everything?

A

Hydrogen

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6
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The result of a cloud of dust and gas being squeezed and compressed?

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Heat

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7
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What shape do you get as a result?

A

Disk

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8
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The scientific name for a baby star?

A

Protostar

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9
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How can you tell it’s a baby star?

A

It glows

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10
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How hot is a baby star?

A

2 million

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11
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What is the scientific name for an adult star?

A

Main sequence star

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12
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How old is our sun

A

5 billion

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13
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How old is the earth

A

4.5 billion

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14
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What temperature must it reach?
(Main sequence)

A

18 million

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15
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What physical characteristic is going on? (Main sequence star)

A

Now using fusion

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16
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Why is it important our star is stable?

A

Can sustain life

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17
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Which stars are the biggest?

18
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Which type of stars are the smallest?

19
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Which stars live the longest

20
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Which stars are the hottest?

21
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Why do we see so few red stars?

22
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How old is the universe?

A

13.7 billion

23
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How long is the life expectancy for our sun?

A

10 billion

24
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What is the expected life span for the biggest blue stars?

A

1 million yrs

25
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What is the expected life span for the smallest red stars?

A

10 trillion yrs

26
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About what size are the smallest red stars compared to our sun?

27
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How big are blue stars compared to our earth?

28
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Which are the hottest stars?

29
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When a star stops collapsing it’s called a what?

A

White dwarf

30
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What stops the collapse of a star?

31
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What is the size of a white dwarf

32
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How dense is it? (White Dwarf)

A

1 teaspoon weighs a car

33
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After the star has fused the helium what will happen to it?

A

Make heavier things

34
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What element will start to cause problems?

35
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What problem does this element cause?

A

Makes the star collapse

36
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A star exploding is scientifically called?

37
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What will stop a star from collapsing?

38
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Where did they come from? (Neutrons in a star)

A

Squeezing electrons w/protons

39
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How dense is a neutron star?

A

1 teaspoon weighs Omaha

40
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Sometimes I can see the stars sometimes I can’t, this is called?

41
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What causes this? (Polesar)

A

North and South Poles

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