The document provides information about various astronomical terms and concepts. It defines a nebula as an interstellar cloud of dust and gas that is the first stage of a star's life cycle. It states that depending on its mass, a star may live anywhere from 10 million to 200 billion years. It also notes that less massive stars will live longer than more massive stars.

1. The Milky Way galaxy is an example of a(n)
SPIRAL GALAXY
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2. All stars begin as part of a large cloud
of gas and dust called a(n)
____________________.
• NEBULA
A nebula (from Latin: "mist"; pl. nebulae or nebulæ,
with ligature or nebulas) is an interstellar cloud of
dust, hydrogen gas and plasma. It is the first stage of
a star's cycle. Originally nebula was a general name
for any extended astronomical object, including
galaxies beyond the Milky Way (some examples of
the older usage survive; for example, the
Andromeda Galaxy was referred to as the
Andromeda Nebula before galaxies were discovered
by Edwin Hubble). Nebulae often form star-forming
regions, such as in the Eagle Nebula. This nebula is
depicted in one of NASA's most famous images, the
"Pillars of Creation". In these regions the formations
of gas, dust and other materials 'clump' together to
form larger masses, which attract further matter,
and eventually will become big enough to form
stars. The remaining materials are then believed to
form planets, and other solar system objects.

3. Parallax is used to determine a star’s
• DISTANCE
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4. The force that pulls together the
matter in stars is…
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5. The strength of the force of gravity
depends on…..
• Mass and distance

6. The brightness
of a star as seen
from Earth is its
_________
brightness.
• APPARENT

7. Depending on its mass, a star may live from about
a.1 million to 10 million years.
b.10 million to 200 billion years.
C. 5 million to 100 million years.
• Depending on its mass, a star may live from
about
• b.10 million to 200 billion years.
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8. Write 476,000,000,000,000 km in
scientific notation
• It’s EASY! Just make the BIG number smaller by making
it a number between 1-9 (with decimals if needed) and
write down your power of 10 (the number of times you
moved the decimal)
• 4.76 x 10¹⁴
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9. Astronomers typically measure
distances to stars in units called
______________
• Light years
Cool Fact
A light nanosecond -- the distance light can
travel in a billionth of a second -- is about 1
foot (about 30 cm). Radar uses this fact to
measure how far away something like an
airplane is. A radar antenna sends out a short
radio pulse and then waits for it to echo off an
airplane or other target. While it's waiting, it
counts the number of nanoseconds that pass.
Radio waves travel at the speed of light, so the
number of nanoseconds divided by 2 tells the
radar unit how far away the object is!
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10. What color are the coolest stars?
•RED

11. Gravity helps form stars, planets, and
solar systems by the gradual gathering
together of smaller pieces in a process
called
ACCRETION

12. If you are in a car that stops suddenly,
your body keeps moving because it has
____________________.
• INERTIA

13. Stars with less mass will last longer or
shorter than stars with more mass.
• LESS MASS = LONG LIFE

14. Magnetic storms are a result of an
increase in solar wind caused by
eruptions on the sun
called____________.
• Solar flares
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15. Characteristics used to classify stars include
• Temperature
• brightness

16. The most massive stars collapse to
form ____________ when they die.
• BLACK HOLES
black hole questions

17. Which two factors did Newton concluded
combine keeping Earth in orbit?
• MASS and inertia (VELOCITY)

18. A loose grouping of a few thousand
stars is called a(n)
• OPEN CLUSTER
An open cluster is a group of up to a few thousand stars that were formed from the
same giant molecular cloud and have roughly the same age. More than 1,100 open
clusters have been discovered within the Milky Way Galaxy, and many more are
thought to exist.[1] They are loosely bound to each other by mutual gravitational
attraction and become disrupted by close encounters with other clusters and clouds of
gas as they orbit the galactic center, resulting in a migration to the main body of the
galaxy as well as a loss of cluster members through internal close encounters.[2] Open
clusters generally survive for a few hundred million years. In contrast, the more
massive globular clusters of stars exert a stronger gravitational attraction on their
members, and can survive for many billions of years. Open clusters have been found
only in spiral and irregular galaxies, in which active star formation is occurring.[3]

19. A light-year is ______________
• The distance light travels on one year.
• 1 light year = 5.87849981 × 1012 miles
• Let’s move that decimal and find out how
many miles it REALLY is…
• 5,878,499,810,000 miles
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20. A spinning neutron star is called a(n)
__________________.
• PULSAR
A neutron star is about 20 km in diameter and
has the mass of about 1.4 times that of our Sun.
This means that a neutron star is so dense that
on Earth, one teaspoonful would weigh a billion
tons! Because of its small size and high density,
a neutron star possesses a surface gravitational
field about 2 x 1011 times that of Earth. Neutron
stars can also have magnetic fields a million
times stronger than the strongest magnetic
fields produced on Earth.
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/pulsars.html

21. Oh my gosh, I heard that astronomers
found life on another planet!!!!
Really?! That’s
amazing!
Professor Von Drake said he found fleas on
Pluto!!!!
STUDY!!!