Ch 3 Stars Vocab

Exploding Star

• Red Giant

• Black Dwarf

• Supernova

• Black Hole

Measure of a star's brightness as seen from Earth

• Light-year

• Apparent Magnitude

• Absolute Magnitude

• Light absorbers

Dying star giving off very little light

• Black Dwarf

• White Dwarf

• Neutron Star

• Twinkle twinkle little star

Huge cloud of dust and gas

• protostar

• nebula

• galaxy

• smoke and mirrors

Gigantic cluster of billions of stars home to our solar system is known as

• Milky Way

• Andromeda

• Proxima Centari

• Solar System

Remains of a massive star from a supernova

• nebula

• black hole

• galaxy

• neutron star

Dense invisible object in space whose gravity is so great that not even light can escape

• Black hole

• neutron star

• supernova

• nebula

Distance light travels in 365 days

• Astro-units

• light-year

• year-light

• zippy do dah

Measure of a star's brightness based on the amount of light it actually gives off

• Light-year

• Absolute Magnitude

• Apparent Magnitude

• Temperature

Concentration of matter in space is the beginning of a star

• Nebula

• Protostar

• Developed star

• Red Giant