Sisters of the Sun Video Review

What is the “cost” for having all of our electric lights?

• we lost the sun

• we lost the stars

• we lost a piece of ourselves

• humanity has advanced

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NGSS.HS-ESS3-4

How much brighter are the Pleiades than our Sun?

• 5000X

• 5X

• 40X

• 10,000X

How did Annie Jump Cannon lose her hearing?

• head injury as a child

• scarlett fever

• she was born deaf

• polio disease

How many major categories of stars are there?

• 10

• 7

• 5

• 12

What did Henry Norris Russell discover about the Earth and the Sun? (Click all that apply!)

• they are composed of roughly the same elements

• they were made together when the galaxy formed

• if you heated up the Earth, it would shine like the sun

• the Earth once was part of the sun

What did scientists figure out about Annie Jump Cannon’s data? (Click ALL that apply!)

• that it worked more for some stars than others

• it only applied to stars that were normal size (not super giants)

• it was more of a temperature scale than a classification system

• she was wrong, and had to correct her thesis

Which stars in the universe are “newborns”?

• ones in a nebula

• ones in the Oort stage

• ones without moons

• ones in single sun solar system

What kind of star will our Sun be after it grows to 100 times its normal size?

• White Giant

• Blue Giant

• Red Giant

• HyperNebula

Name the brightest star in our sky.

• Eta Carina

• Alnilam

• Sirius

• Beetleguice

• Flame Nebula

What is going to happen to the star in Orion’s belt (Alnilam) after it implodes?

• White Dwarf

• Neutron Star

• Black Hole

• Super Red Giant

• Black Dwarf