The Birth and Death of Stars

The story of a star’s life and death is largely determined by it’s …

• Horoscope

• Initial mass

• Number of planets

• Location in the galaxy

• Closeness to the Pleiades

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99% of the universe’s stars have a mass that is…

• 8 solar masses or less

• 16 solar masses or less

• more than 8 solar masses

• unknowable

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Stars born with more than 8 solar masses evolve off of the main sequence …

• Identically to those less than 8

• Differently than those less than 8

• More slowly than those less than 8

• Don't leave the main sequence

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After their nuclear fusion of Hydrogen into Helium is exhausted, Stars with less than 8 solar masses …

• Expand into Blue Super Giant stars

• Expand into white giant stars

• Expand into red giant stars

• Shrink into drown dwarfs

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Our Sun will expand out to about…

• The orbit of Venus

• The orbit of Earth

• The orbit of Mars

• The orbit of the Asteroid belt

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Our Sun will undergo this expansion in about…

• 5 billion years

• 8 billion years

• 8 million years

• three weeks, next Thursday

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During the Sun’s expansion, it’s surface will cool to about …

• 1500 degrees Kelvin

• 1500 degrees Kevin

• 3000 degrees Kelvin

• 3000 degrees Karen

• 6000 degrees y’all

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The swollen stars core burns helium which produces what type of atoms?

• Hydrogen

• Magnesium

• Carbon

• Uranium

• Unobtainium

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The Sun will burn as a Red Giant for about…

• 250 million years

• 1 billion years

• 4 billion years

• $100 plus change

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During the last few million years, the Sun will blow off about 40% of its outer layers. These expanding layers of gas will be lit up by the remaining Helium/Carbon core forming a …

• Stellar cluster

• Planetary Nebula

• New Galaxy

• Black Hole

• Dark Energy

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