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- 2. When light passes through an electrograph and there are absent colors, these black lines are called .....
- 4. _________flames are hotter than yellow flames.
- 6. The distance that light travels in a vacuum in one year (approximately 9.46 x 10^12)
- 7. Much of the information about stars can be found by studying the _____ they emit.
- 8. The closest star to Earth other than the sun.
- 12. A star at the end of it's life cycle that expands and cools as it runs out of hydrogen.
- 13. These flames are the coolest.
- 16. The diagonal patter of stars on the H-R diagram.
- 17. An instrument that splits starlight into all its colors.
- 19. The shift in an objects direction when viewed from two geographically distant locations.
- 20. This tool which stands for Hertzsprung-Russell, plots the relationship between a star's spectrum and it's absolute magnitude.
- 22. What the H-R diagram shows on it's y-axis.
- 24. When an object gives off all the colors necessary to produce white light, this range of color is called...
- 28. How bright an object appears to an observer on Earth.
- 29. Enormous balls of hot gas.
- 30. Large clouds of interstellar material.
- 31. The leftover materials in the core of a supernova.
- 32. The array of colors produced when light passes through a prism.
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- 1. The faintest stars.
- 3. If light splits with an electrograph, only a few colors appear. These colors are known as this.
- 5. What the H-R diagram shows on it's x-axis.
- 9. The material that where stars are born is known as this.
- 10. A stars color not only indicates its temperature but also its ________ ______.
- 11. A small, hot, faint star at the end of its life.
- 14. When a blue star collapses under its own weight and explodes in a brilliant flash of light it is called this.
- 15. A massive celestial object with gravity so strong that not even light can escape.
- 18. The brightest stars.
- 21. The brightness of a star measured by an observer that is 32.6 light years away.
- 23. Also called Polaris, all stars seem to rotate around this star because it is directly above Earth's North Pole.
- 25. Stars are fueled by this.
- 26. In the 1880s, scientists began classifying stars according to this.
- 27. A spinning neutron star that give off pulses of radiation at regular intervals.
