Star Chapter Crossword
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- 3. Cool objects in space tend to glow this color.
- 4. The law used to relate the temperature of a star and its wavelength of light is known as this.
- 5. Stars that are much smaller than our Sun are known as these.
- 10. The apparent brightness of stars in the night sky are measured using units of _________ which was first coined by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus.
- 11. These are very large, cool stars found on the upper right-hand side of an HR Diagram.
- 12. These are small, extremely hot stars found on the bottom left-hand size of an HR Diagram.
- 16. To calculate a star's radius, a mathematical relationship between luminosity, temperature, and radius is used known as this law (found on page 334).
- 17. Astronomers call the amount of energy an object radiates this, which is shown with the variable "L".
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- 1. In 1912, Ejnar Hertzsprung and Henry Norris Russell plotted stars based on luminosity and temperature to come up with this diagram, one of the most important tools used in astronomy.
- 2. Stars that are much larger than our Sun are known as these.
- 6. If two stars have the same temperature, but one is more luminous than the other, the more luminous star must have a larger surface area, and thus a larger ____________ (pg. 334).
- 7. This kind of star is the majority of stars found on an HR Diagram going from the top left to the bottom right.
- 8. A star's __________ depicts the energy it emits at each wavelength of light and is perhaps the single most important thing we can know about the star.
- 9. A star's apparent magnitude depends on two factors: its luminosity and its __________ from Earth (found on page 332).
- 13. This person actually classified the stars in the Draper Catalog based on the temperature and color of the stars.
- 14. A star's temperature can often be deducted from the ________ of its emitted light (found on page 333).
- 15. Hot objects in space tend to glow this color.