The Sun and Other Stars Vocabulary

An exploding ball of burning gas held

together by gravity.

• Star

• Light Year

• Buster

• Habitable Zone

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

How far light can travel in 1 year. Light

travels at 186,000 miles each second.

• Light Year

• Betelgeuse

• Habitable Zone

• Sirius

A blue-white star in the constellation Orion.

It is also one of the brightest stars in the

night sky. It's 40,000 times brighter than our

sun but it is also 864 light years away.

• Mrs. Marshman

• Betelgeuse

• Habitable Zone

• Rigel

An area around a star that is approximately

the right distance to support liquid water on

the surface of a planet.

• Light Year

• Betelgeuse

• Habitable Zone

• Sirius

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS2-7

It is a reddish star about 1000 times bigger

than the sun and more than 600 light years

away. It is also the ninth-brightest star in

the night sky and second-brightest in the

constellation of Orion.

• Light Year

• Betelgeuse

• Habitable Zone

• Sirius

A reddish star that is 700 times larger than

our sun. It is one of the largest known stars

and is about 600 light years away from us.

It is the brightest star in the constellation

Scorpius.

• Antares

• Solar Flare

• Kepler Space Telescope

• Planisphere

A burst of high energy radiation made by

the sun that can travel to Earth and interfere

with cell phone reception and satellite

communications.

• Mr. Holmquist

• Solar Flare

• Kepler Space Telescope

• Planisphere

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS3-2

A huge telescope in space launched in

2009 that is searching for planets outside

our solar system. It looks for planets that

are around the same size as Earth in the

"habitable zone" of a star.

• Antares

• Solar Flare

• Kepler Space Telescope

• Planisphere

A device used to show what stars are

visible at any given time of year.

• Antares

• Solar Flare

• Kepler Space Telescope

• Planisphere

The brightest star in the night sky. It is also

500,000 times further from us than the sun.

• Sirius

• Habitable Zone

• Mrs. Pizza

• Kepler Space Telescope