Universe and Stars Test Review

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How did the balloon model in the balloon lab represent our universe?

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Expansion

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What evidence did astronomers have to show that our universe is expanding?

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Red Shift

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The remnant of a giant star that has lost its outer atmosphere is a

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White Dwarf

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The most luminous, most massive stars, with diameters greater than 100 times the diameter of the sun.

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supergiant

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A halo formed by the expelled layers of a star's atmosphere.

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Planetary nebula

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A large cloud of gas in space

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nebula

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a group of stars that appear to form a pattern in the sky

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constellations

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the distance that light travels in one year, about 9.5 trillion kilometers

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light year

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the brilliant burst of light that follows the collapse of the iron core of a massive star

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super nova

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a distant neutron star that emits rapid pulses of light and radiowaves instead of steady radiation

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pulsar