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Properties of Star
Properties of Star
Size
Temperature and color
Brightness
SIZE
Giants/supergiant – large and very large stars. Many of these are very far away
White Dwarfs – very small stars – about the size of the earth
Neutron Stars – even smaller stars – only 20km in diameter
Medium Size Stars – many stars this size. The size of our sun
Binary star systems contain two stars that orbit around their common center of mass. Many of the stars
in our galaxy are part of a binary system.
Parallax – the apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from different places.
SPEED OF LIGHT
239,000 miles
-The light year is one of the basic measures of distance for astronomy
VARIABLE STARS
Cepheid variables – pulsate in a regular way, rapidly increasing in brightness as they increase in
size, then slowly decreasing in brightness as the decrease in size.
Nova – sudden brightening of a star.
INSTELLAR MATTER
Between stars there are clouds of dust and gasses = nebulae (Greek for cloud)
PREPARED BY:
JEAH M. APAN
ELLA MAE MAPA
DONNALYN SUPOLMO