Stars Reading Passage Quiz

What is the name of the closest star in our universe?

What was the author trying to do in writing this passage?

• persuade readers that stars are awesome

• entertain the reader by telling of stories about stars

• entertain the reader by making jokes about space

• inform the reader about stars

How do stars form?

How often do scientists think that a star explodes in our galaxy?

• every 100 years

• every 50 years

• every 1905 years

• billions of years apart

What is the color of the coolest type of star?

• white

• light blue

• red

• blue

The passage states that there are different colors of stars. What are the colors in order from HOTTEST to COOLEST

When did Ejnar Hurtzsprung discover two types of stars?

• 1705

• 1805

• 1905

• 1900

How old are stars?

• billions of years old

• 1905 years

• millions of years old

• thousands of years old

What does the author compare the number of stars in the Milky Way to?

• amount of people on Earth

• number of constellations

• grains of sand on the beach

What is a constellation?