Stars and Constellation

Question 1

● Huge collections of billions of stars
● Contain dark strips of dust and may
contain huge black holes at their
centers

Answer 1

galaxies

Question 3

types of galaxies

Answer 3

spiral galaxy
elliptical galaxy
irregular galaxy

Question 4

consist of a
central mass with one, two, or
three arms that spiral around
the center.

Answer 4

spiral galaxy

Question 5

flattened pinwheels in shape

Answer 5

spiral galaxy

Question 6

is oval, with a
bright center that gradually,
evenly dims to the edges. They
are usually the brightest
galaxies.

Answer 6

elliptical galaxy

Question 7

are not
asymmetrical and do not look
like spiral or elliptical galaxies.

Answer 7

irregular galaxy

Question 8

is a group of
stars that looks like a particular
shape in the sky and has been
given a name.

Answer 8

constellation

Question 9

are balls of gas that shine
or used to shine because of
nuclear fusion in their cores.

Answer 9

stars

Question 10

(clouds of dust and mostly hydrogen
gas)

Answer 10

nebulae

Question 11

A cloud of interstellar gas and dust
that gradually collapses, forming a
hot dense core, and evolves into a
star once nuclear fusion can occur in
the core.

Answer 11

protostar

Question 12

colors of stars (hottest to coldest)

Answer 12

BLUE (HOTTEST)
BLUE-WHITE
YELLOW
ORANGE
RED (COLDEST)

Question 13

KIND OF STARS

Answer 13

-main sequence
-Giant and Supergiant Stars
-White dwarf stars
-novas
-supernovas
-neutron and pulsars
-black holes

Question 14

are objects that are so
massive and dense that their
immense gravitational pull does
not even let light escape.

Answer 14

black holes

Question 15

are a special type of
neutron star.

Answer 15

pulsars

Question 16

are the collapsed
cores sometimes left behind by
supernovas explosions.

Answer 16

neutron stars

Question 17

star that suddenly
increases greatly in brightness
because of a catastrophic
explosion that ejects most of its
mass.

Answer 17

supernovas

Question 18

binary, or double, star in
which one member is a white dwarf
and the other is a giant or
supergiant.

Answer 18

novas

Question 19

these stars are
smaller and dimmer

Answer 19

white dwarf stars

Question 20

dead star

Answer 20

black dwarf

Question 21

Stars swell as they move off the
main sequence, becoming giants
and for more massive stars–
supergiants.

Answer 21

giant and supergiant stars

Question 22

is any star that
has a hot, dense core
which fuses
hydrogen into helium
to produce energy.

Answer 22

main-sequence

Question 23

heliocentric

Answer 23

sun

Question 24

geocentric

Answer 24

earth

Question 25

not to far from sun

Answer 25

habitable zome

Question 26

a small remaining quantity of something.

Answer 26

remnants