The Universe Word Scramble
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- Q 1/23Score 0Groups of stars that "form pictures" are called...29constellations
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- Q1Groups of stars that "form pictures" are called...constellations120s
- Q2The North Star is found in Ursa Minor. The North Star is also calledpolaris120s
- Q312 constellations that mark the path of the planets, moon, and sun in the sky are called _______ constellationszodiac120s
- Q4Over thousands of years, stars in constellations slowly drift as they revolve around the center of the Milky Way. This is called what?proper motion120s
- Q5An easy way to find common stars and constellationsstar hopping120s
- Q6The scale of a star's brightness is also called...magnitude120s
- Q7How bright a star appears from Earthapparent magnitude120s
- Q8How bright stars really areabsolute magnitude120s
- Q9How bright a star is compared to the sunluminosity120s
- Q10The apparent shift in a star's position when viewed from one side of Earth's orbit, and then the other side 6 months laterparallax120s
- Q11Objects of known brightness are called standard "_____________ candles" and are used as distance indicatorsstandard120s
- Q12Stars that vary in brightness with a regular cyclecepheid variables120s
- Q13A graph of stars that shows relationship of star color (or temperature) to absolute magnitude (or luminosity)HR Diagram120s
- Q14Systems containing millions or billions of starsgalaxies120s
- Q15This type of galaxy is round and flattened-sphere shapeselliptical120s
