Questions
What type of star is our Sun?
- low-mass star
- intermediate-mass star
- high-mass star
- blackhole
What do astronomers mean when they say that we are all "star stuff"?
- that life would be impossible without energy from the Sun
- that life would be possible without energy from the Sun
- that the carbon, oxygen, and many elements essential to life were created by nucleosynthesis in stellar cores
- None of these
The brightness of a star which can be seen from earth is called
- absolute magnitude
- apparent magnitude
- light year
- parallax
What is the first stage of a stars life.
- Nebula collapsing under itself
- Supernova of old star
- Planets collapsing
- Fusion of atoms
All stars are born in what phase of their lifecycle?
- Supernova
- Red giant
- main sequence
- stellar nebula
What happens during the Main Sequence phase of a star?
- Hydrogen atoms are fused into helium atoms
- The star explodes and releases energy
- Helium atoms are fused into heavy elements
- The star is born out of dust and gas
A main sequence star is
- A star that shines steadily due to nuclear fusion
- Several stars close together
- A star with planets orbiting it
- A Nebula that skips a protostar and is instantly turns into a star.
What is a Star?
- A cloud of particles held together loosely by their own collective gravity
- A very big collection of matter, mostly gas compressed to incredible pressure and heat by gravity.
- A nuclear explosion caused by a growth of hydrogen onto the surface of a white dwarf star
- A ball of gas.
What is the name of the process that forms heavy elements from atoms like helium?
- Nuclear Fission
- Attraction
- Conjugation
- Nuclear Fusion
A star in the main sequence will maintain a constant size
- as long as its helium supply holds out.
- because its tendency to contract is opposed by the pressure of the hot interior.
- until it is devoured by black holes.
- provided that gravitational collapse does not overwhelm its photosphere.
Stars are believed to originate
- in clouds composed largely of hydrogen gas.
- when black holes eject excess matter and energy.
- when a supernova explode.
- when a cloud of helium starts to collapse and breaks into constituent protons (hydrogen atoms).
A protostar is a developing star not yet hot enough to engage in the process of:
- nuclear fusion
- nuclear fission
- atomic transmission
- atomic emission
The gaseous body that continues to form, now appears as a large red object called a:
- protostar
- red dwarf
- red star port
- red giant
What does the forming star become when the outward pressure equals the inward force of gravity?
- stable main-sequence star
- unstable secondary white dwarf
- unstable main-sequence star
- stable secondary red giant
When the core of a protostar reaches 10 million degrees Kelvin, the pressure is so great that the nuclear fusion of which gas begins?
- hydroxide
- hydrogen
- heliogen
- hydrogate
After the initial contraction and when the temperature rises high enough, energy is radiated from the surface in the form of:
- short-wavelength red light
- short-wavelength blue light
- long-wavelength red light
- long-wavelength orange light
What is the range of star masses for high-mass stars?
- between 500 and about 1,000 solar masses
- between 200 and about 500 solar masses
- between 8 and about 100 solar masses
- between 2 and about 10 solar masses