Earth in Space/ The Stars

Question 1

What is the nearest star system to our solar system?

Answer 1

Alpha Centauri

Question 2

How are astronomers able to determine the surface temperature of a star?

Answer 2

By its color and its spectrum analysis

Question 3

What is the color bands of a star’s light called?

Answer 3

Spectrum

Question 4

What indicates the chemical composition of the star?

Answer 4

The analysis of the width and placement of the colored light bands in the spectrum

Question 5

What is not as hot as one containing ionized helium?

Answer 5

The star that has little or no helium present in its spectrum

Question 6

What displays more metals in its spectrum than a hotter star?

Answer 6

A cooler star

Question 7

What indicates star temperature?

Answer 7

Star color

Question 8

What is the least hot of all the stars?

Answer 8

Red stars

Question 9

What color indicates a star of medium temperature?

Answer 9

Yellow

Question 10

What is also known as the Dog Star in the constellation Canis Major?

Answer 10

Sirius

Question 11

What is a blue white star and is extremely hot?

Answer 11

Sirius

Question 12

What constellation means ‘the greater dog’?

Answer 12

Canis Major

Question 13

What is the most familiar red star in the heavens?

Answer 13

Betelgeuse

Question 14

What is a red supergiant that marks the shoulder of Orion?

Answer 14

Betelgeuse

Question 15

What is the red dwarf in the Alpha Centauri system?

Answer 15

Three stars

Question 16

How far away are the stars from the Alpha Centauri system from Earth?

Answer 16

4.3 light years

Question 17

What are two of the stars in the Alpha Centauri system, which are yellow?

Answer 17

Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B

Question 18

What stars are similar in size and temperature to Sol?

Answer 18

Alpha Centauri A and Alpha Centauri B

Question 19

What is the estimated surface temperature of a yellow star?

Answer 19

Between 8,540°F (4,727° C) and 10,340°F (5,727° C)

Question 20

What is the third star in the Alpha Centauri system?

Answer 20

Proxima Centauri

Question 21

What is the red dwarf in the Alpha Centauri system?

Answer 21

Proxima Centauri

Question 22

What is the third star in the alpha Centauri system?

Answer 22

Proxima Centauri

Question 23

What is the red dwarf in the Alpha Centauri system called?

Answer 23

Proxima Centauri

Question 24

What is the estimated surface temperature of Proxima Centauri?

Answer 24

Less than 5,840°F (3,227°C)

Question 25

From God's point of view, who was the better choice for king? (1 Samuel 16)

Answer 25

David

Question 26

What qualities affect a star's apparent magnitude?

Answer 26

Its size, energy output, and distance from Earth

Question 27

What scale compares the brightness, or magnitude, stars would have if they were all the same distance?

Answer 27

Absolute magnitude

Question 28

What scale helps astronomers understand it's true size and brightness compared to the size and brightness of other stars?

Answer 28

Absolute magnitude

Question 29

What is the diameter of Sol?

Answer 29

865,373 miles(1,392,683 km)

Question 30

What do we think is huge, but is actually considered a dwarf star?

Answer 30

Sol

Question 31

What kind of stars may be yellow, red, white, or brown, and possibly black?

Answer 31

Dwarf stars

Question 32

What make up about two-thirds of all the stars in our galaxy?

Answer 32

Red dwarfs

Question 33

What stars that are more than 20 times larger than Sol called?

Answer 33

Giants

Question 34

What is a red giant star, which is located 37 light-years(11.3 parsecs) from Earth?

Answer 34

Arcturus

Question 35

What is much less dense than Sol and is 26 times larger?

Answer 35

Arcturus

Question 36

What is about 1,000 times larger than Sol and is classified as a supergiant?

Answer 36

Betelgeuse