Star Facts
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This game will assess your knowledge of astronomy terms dealing with the characteristics of stars.
Topics of this game:
- What is the brightness of a star called?
- A small- or medium-sized star
- What is an area of extreme gravitational force that may result from the collapse of a massive supergiant star?
- What is the apparent movement or change in position of one star in relationship to another?
- What is the star nearest Earth?
- A star that can be tens to hundreds of times larger and hundreds of times more luminous than the sun
- A star that is hundreds of times larger than the sun and thousands of times brighter
- What is the size of our sun?
- What is a star's apparent brightness?
- What is a star's actual brightness?
- Coolest stars are what color?
- Hottest stars are what color?
- What is the next closest star to Earth?
- What is a neutron star that spins rapidly on its axis?
- What is the distance that light travels in one year?
- What is the death explosion of a massive star?
- What are stars that regularly or repeatedly change in magnitude ?
- What is a star that suddenly flares and becomes hundreds or thousands of times brighter than normal?
- A pair of stars that appear to change in brightness because one star moves in front of the other star.
- What is a cloud of interstellar gases and debris?
