Gas, liquid, solid, and PLASMA. What is plasma?

extremely dense and hot with astoundingly high pressure

a violent soup of dissociated nuclei and electrons

The first phase of NUCLEAR fusion and the one happening in main sequence stars is

helium to carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen

everything up to and including Fe - iron - #26

After main sequence stars there is a giant phase where ___ NUCLEAR fusion is powering the star

helium to carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen

everything up to and including Fe - iron - #26

Our Sol will only be capable of NUCLEAR fusion of ___ in its red giant phase

helium to carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen

everything up to and including Fe - iron - #26

A massive star will be capable of NUCLEAR fusion of ___ in its red giant phase. It's more than our Sol can do.

everything up to and including Fe - iron - #26

helium to carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen

A red supergiant will supernova and in that extremely violent reaction ___ are created.

helium to carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen

everything up to and including Fe - iron - #26

Our solar system is known to be the remnants of a supernova (2nd generation) because ___ exist in us and in the crust of Earth.

helium to carbon, nitrogen, and oxygen

everything up to and including Fe - iron - #26

Main sequence stars (but not a red dwarf) will eventually collapse because

the force of gravity pulls the star inward

they run out of the hydrogen nuclear fusion fuel that keeps the core hot

heat from the fusion core of stars pushes outward

red giants and red supergiants will eventually collapse because

the force of gravity pulls the star inward

they run out of the hydrogen nuclear fusion fuel that keeps the core hot

heat from the fusion core of stars pushes outward

After a supernova, the remnants of a red supergiant will collapse into a

one of these options - depends on the mass

What happens to a red dwarf through its lifetime

it will remain the same for tens of billions of years

Where is our solar system in the Milky Way?

on the edge of a spur off the edge of a spiral arm

in the bar of the barred spiral

We are happy to live in a calm part of the galaxy far from other stars off the edge of a spiral arm

We don't, so we can't be happy about it.

Galaxies and Constellations

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Before a star there is a ___

nebula

cloud of gas and dust

all of these

higher local density of material in space

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Before a solar system there is a ___

nebula

cloud of gas and dust

all of these

higher local density of material in space

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Before a galaxy there is a ___

nebula

cloud of gas and dust

all of these

higher local density of material in space

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

how old is the universe?

5 billion years

14 billion years

5 trillion years

14 trillion years

how old is Sol?

5 billion years

14 billion years

5 trillion years

14 trillion years

how old is Earth?

5 billion years

14 billion years

5 trillion years

14 trillion years

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

Our sun contains ___% of the mass of the solar system

99.8%

98%

85%

50%

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Galaxies and Constellations

79 questions

Before a star there is a ___

Before a solar system there is a ___

Before a galaxy there is a ___

how old is the universe?

how old is Sol?

how old is Earth?

Our sun contains ___% of the mass of the solar system

Which is not a main sequence star?

Which is a dead star? There is no more fusion.

Which is our star?

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