Astronomy Test 2 ch. 6-12

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H II Regions are also called emission nebulae.

true

If two stars are emitting the same amount of light, the star that is farther will appear dimmer.

true

If you move an electron from the ground state to a higher energy level, the atom becomes an excited atom.

true

Low-mass stars like the Sun transport energy near their surface using convection.

true

Nebula is just another name for the interstellar medium (ISM).

true

Observing star clusters will give astronomers needed data for stellar evolution because all the stars are the same age.

true

One of the factors that a large molecular cloud must overcome in order for gravitational contraction to begin is rotation of the gas cloud.​

true

One of the factors that a large molecular cloud must overcome in order for gravitational contraction to begin is the thermal energy of the gas.​

true

One of the major star forming regions in space is the Orion Nebula.​

true

One trigger that could start the gravitational contraction of a molecular cloud to form stars is a passing shock wave.​

true

Refracting and reflecting telescopes form an image that is small, inverted, and difficult to observe directly; therefore, an eyepiece is normally used to magnify the image and make it convenient to view.

true

The solar wind can blow past Earth with speeds as high as 1000 km/s.

true

​The upper chromosphere is hot enough to emit X-rays.

true

Stars are born from the interstellar medium, and aging or dying stars return gas and dust back into the interstellar medium.

true

The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram is a plot for stars using absolute magnitude versus temperature.

true

The ISM magnetic field is typically about 0.0001 times as strong as Earth's magnetic field at its surface.

true

The Sun is a ball of hot gas held together by its own gravity.

true

The age of a star cluster can be approximated by finding its turnoff point in the distribution of data points that represent stars on the H-R diagram.

true

The composition of the interstellar dust suggests that it is formed primarily in the atmospheres of cool stars.

true

The coronal gas in the interstellar medium has very high temperatures similar to the Sun's corona.

true

​A shift in the position of an emission line of an element toward the red or blue is produced by ____.

​the motion of an object toward or away from the observer

​Blackbody radiation is caused by an object's ____.

​thermal agitation

​Keck Observatory

Twin telescopes atop Mauna Kea whose primary mirrors are made of 36 individual hexagonal segments

Cepheid variable stars are classified as either ____.

Type I or Type II

Vega is an A0 main-sequence star. Based on this information, which statement is true?

Vega has mass that is greater than the Sun

​Which mission passed the bow shock in the Universe?

Voyager I

The wavelength of maximum intensity depends on the surface temperature of the star.

Wien's Law

Celestial objects with temperatures below 500 K are labeled _______ dwarfs.

Y

​Which telescope is the largest refracting telescope in the world?

Yerkes Observatory refractor telescope

Astronomers can measure the magnetic fields of sunspots using the ____, which splits spectral lines into multiple components.

Zeeman effect

The amount of energy needed to pull an electron completely away from the nucleus is called the Coulomb energy.

false

The energy emitted from the surface of a main-sequence star is less than the energy generated in the core.

false

The helium flash stage will always completely destroy a star and any planets nearby it

false

The intercloud medium is believed to make up 90 percent of the mass of the interstellar medium.

false

The most accurate way to determine the surface temperature of a star is to study the pattern of emission lines from various atoms.

false

The proton-proton chain for fusing hydrogen into helium is a much more complicated process than the CNO Cycle for fusing hydrogen into helium.​

false

The temperature at the core of a star must be at least 1 million degrees Kelvin before fusion can begin.​

false

The terms "temperature" and "heat" are synonymous.

false

When a large gas cloud starts to collapse in a free-fall due to gravity, it will start to cool down as it contracts because of the atoms fall inward.​

false

When the Sun generates its own energy, it uses weak forces to bind together atomic nuclei.

false

X-rays come from certain regions of the interstellar medium because gas molecules in those regions are at a very high density.

false

​A continuous spectrum is created by a hot ionized gas.

false

​All telescopes must be operated on site by an astronomer or a technician.

false

​An atom that has gained one or more electrons is called an isotope.

false

​If absorption lines of sodium are not present in a star's spectrum, the star must not contain any sodium.

false

​Nuclear fusion in the Sun is tremendously powerful.

false

​Reflecting telescopes suffer from chromatic aberration because the light must pass through the glass.

false

​Refracting telescopes use a mirror to gather and focus light.

false

​Resolving power is measured in nanometers.

false

​Small differences in temperature between two stars produce small differences in the amount of energy they radiate.

false

​Spicules can trigger communications blackouts and auroras on Earth.

false

​Sunspot numbers follow a seven-year cycle.

false

​The Kelvin temperature scale is based on the freezing point of water.

false

​The layer above the chromosphere is the photosphere.

false

​The lowest permitted energy level of an atom is called the neutral state.

false

​The spectral classification of stars started with the amount of hydrogen present in their spectra, but a better method now uses the amount of oxygen in the star's spectra.

false

​The emission lines from O III are called ____ because they are not visible laboratories on Earth due to the much greater pressure of the gas on Earth.

forbidden lines

Any star that is more luminous than the Sun, but has the same temperature as the Sun, is a(n) ____.

giant

​What are the dark regions that give the Sun's photosphere a mottled appearance?

granules

​Large molecular clouds will form into protostars because of ____.

gravitational contraction

As a one-solar-mass star evolves off the main sequence, it will probably undergo a _____.

helium flash

During the main-sequence lifetime of a star of any mass, the core of the star will be composed mainly of ____.

hellium

What is the shape of the segmented mirrors of twin Keck Observatory telescopes, Gran Telescopio Canarias, and the James Webb Space Telescope (scheduled to be launched in late 2018)?

hexagonal

According to Wien's Law, a(n) ____.

hotter object will emit more short wavelength (bluer) radiation

Which two elements are most abundant within the Sun?

hydrogen and helium

There is a mass-luminosity relationship because stars support their weight by generating energy, and more massive stars have more weight to support.

true

​Which form of electromagnetic radiation is able to easily reach Earth's surface through an atmospheric window?

radio

When the Sun moves off the main sequence, it will initially become a red supergiant.

true

​A hot object that is glowing orange will become redder as it cools.

true

​An absorption spectrum is created when blackbody radiation passes through a cool gas.

true

​Astronomers determine the internal structure of a star by using stellar models, since they cannot "see" into the interior of a star.

true

​Granulation is caused by convection currents just below the photosphere.

true

​In blackbody radiation, short-wavelength and long-wavelength photons are rare.

true

​Red light of the visible light spectrum has longer wavelengths than blue.

true

Eighty percent of the stars on the H-R diagram are on the main sequence, and that is because the star is in hydrostatic equilibrium due to the _____.

fusion of hydrogen

​Which type of electromagnetic wave is the shortest?

gamma

​What is released from the proton-proton chain and is immediately absorbed by the surrounding gas, thereby heating it?

gamma rays

​Space-based telescopes carrying long-wavelength infrared detectors must carry coolant such as liquid helium to chill their optics to near absolute zero temperature.

true

​Stars of low luminosity will always have large positive absolute magnitude.

true

​Sunspots are parts of active solar regions dominated by magnetic fields that encompass all layers of the Sun's atmosphere.

true

​Sunspots tend to occur in groups, or pairs, with the magnetic field around the pair resembling that around a bar magnet.

true

​The agitation of atoms in a hot body creates a continuous spectrum of radiation.

true

​The corona is so dim that it is not visible in Earth's daytime sky.

true

​The larger the diameter of a telescope, the more light it will collect.

true

​The luminosity class is assigned to a star by studying the absorption lines in the spectrum of the star.

true

​The number of protons in the nucleus determines which element it is.

true

​Astronomers often record solar images in the ____ part of the electromagnetic spectrum because the gaseous layers high in the Sun's atmosphere are very hot and emit most of their light at short wavelengths.

ultraviolet

Astronomers refer to the dark center of a sunspot as a(n) ____

umbra

​The arrangement of permitted orbits is ____.

unique for each element

The least common type of star is a(n) ____.

upper main-sequence

The luminosity of a star is the ____.​

​total energy radiated by the star in one second

​The Balmer series of hydrogen absorption lines in stars is located in what part of the electromagnetic spectrum?

​visible region

Almost all the light we receive from the Sun escapes from underneath its photosphere.

false

As a star like the Sun exhausts hydrogen in its core, the outer layers of the star become hotter and more luminous.

false

Blackbody radiation only occurs in stars.

false

Cosmic rays are made of photons.​

false

Astronomers can determine the interiors of main-sequence stars by _____.

creating stellar models

​The visible surface of the Sun is composed of solid matter.

false

​Galileo proposed that the Sun is a rotating sphere after he ____.

observed sunspots move across the surface of the Sun

​A star like the Sun emits a(n) ____ spectrum.

absorption

The hydrogen lines of spectral type A main-sequence stars are ____.

the strongest

James Webb Space Telescope​

A next-generation space telescope that will be placed in a solar orbit

​What is the average distance between the Sun and Earth?

1 AU

​Absolute visual magnitude is calculated at a standard distance of ____.

10 parsecs

The fusion of helium into carbon will take a temperature of at least

100 million degrees kelvin

Globular clusters have approximately how many stars?

100,000 - 1,000,000

Coronal gas emits x-rays and has temperatures of ____.

106 K or higher

​Observing at a wide range of wavelengths, astronomers have detected more than ______ different molecules in the ISM.

150

The ground state of hydrogen has two closely-spaced energy levels, where one-electron is spinning up and the other is spinning down. This energy transition corresponds to releasing excess energy as a photon at what wavelength?

21 centimeters

H I clouds can be observed using _____.

21-cm radiation

Consider the complete magnetic cycle of sunspot activity on the Sun. Approximately how many years is this cycle?​

22 years

​If telescope A is 160 cm in diameter, and telescope B is 32 cm in diameter, how much more light does telescope A gather than telescope B?

25 times

Our Sun took about ________ years from the collapse of its parent molecular cloud to become a main-sequence star.

30 million

The Sun, a one-solar-mass star, will take approximately how many years to go from protostar to main-sequence star?

30 million years

Which equation represents the overall nuclear fusion process of the Sun?

4 1H → 4He + energy

The stellar parallax limit for ground-based telescopes is accurate for stars closer than ____.

50 parsecs

What is the approximate average temperature of the Sun's surface?

5800K

Chandra

A space telescope that detects X-rays

HST

A space-based telescope that detects visible, UV, and infrared wavelengths

Which molecule has not been detected in molecular clouds?

All of these have been detected.

SOFIA

An airborne telescope that captures short infrared wavelengths

​Why does the temperature of the corona rise with latitude?

Atoms within the corona become more ionized at higher altitudes.

A(n) __________ is both an image-recording device and a photometer.

CCD

​Which type of focus is most common for larger telescopes?

Cassegrain focus

If you observe a variable star with a period of 50 days as a yellow, supergiant star, then you most likely have seen a(n) ____.

Cepheid variable star

​In order for nuclear fusion to occur, atomic nuclei must overcome the ____ by colliding violently.

Coulomb barrier

Our Sun's spectral temperature type is classified as a(n) ____ on the spectral sequence.

G star

​The Sun is what spectral type?

G2

Groombridge 34 is an M2 main-sequence star. Based on this information, which statement is true?

Groombridge 34 is less luminous than the Sun.

A chaotic shape that is usually twisted, flattened, and tangled

H I Cloud

ISM clouds of cool gas of only about 100 K and dust with densities ranging up to 100 atoms per cubic centimeter and observed only at infrared and radio wavelengths

H I cloud

The satellite __________ measures stellar parallaxes from orbit.

Hipparcos

​Which is the longest surviving, and most successful, space telescope?

Hubble

The hot space of ISMs with temperatures of a few thousand K and a density of only 0.1 atom per cubic centimeter found between the cool H I clouds

Intercloud medium

Which mission is mapping the heliosphere's boundary?

Interstellar Boundary Explorer

​Which telescope will be launched into solar orbit and eventually replace observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope?

JWST

Jenny, who lives on a farm in a rural part of New York, calls her cousin, Karen, in Brooklyn, to tell her that she can see the Milky Way in tonight's night sky. However, Karen says she can't see it at all. What is preventing Karen from seeing the Milky Way in the night sky?

Karen lives in an area with light pollution.

​In which spectral sequence are the hottest stars categorized?

O stars

Why aren't optical or radio telescopes used in particle astronomy, which studies cosmic waves and gravity waves?

Optical and radio telescopes can only detect electromagnetic radiation.

​Why are X-rays and gamma rays considered dangerous forms of light?

Photons of these wavelengths have high energy.

Very Large Array

Radio interferometers in the desert of New Mexico

​Which telescope imaged the center of the Milky Way Galaxy at a wavelength of 8 microns to reveal the distribution of the dusty interstellar medium?

Spitzer Space Telescope

The spacecraft ________ captured particles that scientists believe came from the ISM.

Stardust

Yerkes Observatory

The largest refracting telescope in the world

Arecibo Telescope

The largest single radio dish in the world

What is so unique about the mirrors of telescopes such as the Keck Observatory, Gran Telescopio Canaries, and the soon-to-be-built Giant Magellan Telescope?

The mirrors are segmented.

Why was the Davis experiment only able to detect one-third of the neutrinos originally predicted?

The neutrinos distributed evenly among three different flavors while traveling to Earth.

If a star has an apparent magnitude of +5 and an absolute magnitude of -10, what can we say about that star?

The star is farther than 10 parsecs away.

The star Betelgeuse appears red; the star Rigel appears blue. What accounts for this difference?

The surface of Betelgeuse is cooler than the surface of Rigel.

​What is the function of the receiver antenna of a radio telescope?

To absorb the radio energy collected by the dish

Pre-main-sequence stars (not protostars) on the H-R diagram are _____.

above and to the right of the main sequence

The vertical axis in the accompanying figure (Figure 9-1) is labeled _____.

absolute visual magnitude

If the photons from blackbody radiation pass through a cool gas, a(n) ____ spectrum is produced.

absorption

​A spectrum that displays a smooth variation in intensity over a range of wavelengths with breaks where no energy is observed at specific wavelengths is a(n) ____ spectrum.

absorption

________are corrected to bring two wavelengths (typically red and blue) into focus on the same plane.

achromatic lens

Remember Kepler's third law, which relates the period of revolution to the average distance to a planet. How do we modify that law to use with binary stars?

add the total mass of the two stars

Observing star clusters will give astronomers needed data for stellar evolution because all the stars in the cluster have the same ____.

ages

A neutral atom must have ____.

an equal number of protons and electrons

​An object that acts as a blackbody emits photons because ____.

atoms in the object collide, changing the motion of charged particles

How do large-mass stars in the upper region of the main sequence produce energy?

by fusing hydrogen using the CNO cycle (carbon-nitrogen-oxygen)

How do low-mass stars in the lower region of the main sequence produce their energy?

by fusing hydrogen using the proton-proton chain

How did astronomers discover the relationship between spectral type and mass for main-sequence stars?

by measuring the masses and spectral types of main-sequence stars in binary systems

The ISM is easily visible to human eyes.

false

Which atom is the end result of the triple alpha process?

carbon

Molecular clouds are mapped using _____ gas instead of the most-abundant hydrogen because it radiates at radio wavelengths more efficiently.

carbon monoxide

Cepheid and RR Lyrae variable stars change their brightness by ____.

changing its period between pulses

What modern-day instrument do astronomers use to record images from telescopes?

charge-coupled device

​After a protostar has progressed in its development, it will have a dense inner part and an outer envelope called a(n) ____.

cocoon nebulae

What does chromatic aberration separate within refracting telescopes?

color

​Most of the mass of an atom is ____.

concentrated in the nucleus

​A spectrum that displays a smooth variation in intensity of all wavelengths without any breaks is a(n) ____ spectrum.

continuous

What causes granulation on the photosphere?

convection

What process on the Sun's photosphere does this figure (Figure 8-1) represent?

convection currents

CCD images captured from telescopes are often ____ to be stored in a computer's memory for later analysis.

converted to numerical data

What must be used to maintain the optics and operation of an infrared telescope?

coolant

​Recent discoveries of two types of brown dwarfs have placed these stars near which spectral type of star?

cooler than M stars

Which layer of the Sun's atmosphere is represented in the accompanying visual-wavelength image (Figure 8-2)? (total eclipse)

corona

​Of the following parts of the Sun, which is the hottest?

corona

​The outermost part of the Sun's atmosphere

corona

Highly ionized state

coronal gas

The part of the ISM that can only be detected with X-ray telescopes have has temperatures of 106 K or higher

coronal gas

Which type of nebulaeare twisted and distorted clouds of gas and dust dense enough to obstruct the view of the more distant stars?

dark nebulae

Because of the period-luminosity relation for Cepheids and RR Lyrae variable stars, astronomers are able to _____

determine the relationship between the period of pulses and luminosity

Light-gathering power and resolving power both depend on what characteristic of a telescope?

diameter

​The amount of energy needed to move an electron from a lower energy level to a higher energy level is the ____.

difference in energy between the two levels​

The Babcock model of the solar magnetic cycle explains the sunspot cycle as primarily a consequence of the Sun's ____.

differential rotation

The ____ of a radio telescope collects and focuses radiation.

dish

The formula mv-Mv can be used to calculate a star's _____.

distance

A star's absolute visual magnitude depends only on the star's ______ and _____.

distance; magnitude

Degenerate matter has two peculiar properties that can affect a star. One is that the degenerate gas resists compression, and the other is that the degenerate gas ____.

does not depend on temperature

The _____ occurs when some of the energy in the convective motion of gas is converted into magnetic field energy.

dynamo effect

​The particle in an atom that carries a negative charge is the ____.

electron

An atom must emit a photon when a(n) ____.

electron moves from a higher to a lower energy level

Emission lines are produced by ____.

electrons that transfer from a high energy level to a low energy level

Absorption lines are produced by ____.

electrons that transfer from a low energy level to a high energy level

​A spectrum that displays no energy except at very specific wavelengths where intense radiation is observed is a(n) ____ spectrum.

emission

​Which type of nebula is produced when a star, hotter than 25,000 K, excites the gas near it to produce an emission spectrum producing a distinctive pink color?

emission nebulae

The Stefan-Boltzmann law relates the ____.

energy emitted from a surface every second to the temperature of the surface

Stars support their weight by generating ____.

energy in their centers

Calculations of the Sun's future evolution indicate that it will blow away almost half of its mass in several relatively short episodes about 4 to 5 billion years from now before it is finally extinguished.

false

Giant and supergiant stars are rare because they do not form as often as main-sequence stars.

false

Gravity waves have never been detected.

false

Helioseismology maps of rotation in the Sun's interior show that its internal gases rotate with equal periods.

false

Main sequence O stars have convective cores because they fuse hydrogen in the proton-proton chain.​

false

No radio waves penetrate the Earth's atmosphere.

false

Nuclear fusion within the Sun proceeds step-by-step in a series of reactions called the neutron-neutron chain.

false

Open clusters are older than globular clusters.

false

Radio telescopes are often located near populated areas.

false

Recently discovered brown dwarfs have spectra similar to cool O-type stars.

false

Stars are born in reflection nebulae.

false

Stellar models can easily be accomplished by using a simple hand calculator.

false

Where are the Cepheid and RR Lyrae variable stars located on the H-R diagram?

in the instability strip

When a large gas cloud starts to collapse in a free-fall due to gravity, the cloud will ____.​

increase in temperature

Four of following are factors that must be overcome by a large molecular cloud before gravitational contraction can begin. Which one is the exception?​

intense radiation from a nearby star

An atom that has lost or gained one or more electrons is called a(n) ____.

ion

​Careful measurements reveal that a star maintains a steady apparent brightness at most times, except that at precise intervals of 93 hours. the star becomes dimmer for about 2 hours. The most likely explanation for this is that the star ________.

is a member of an eclipsing binary star system

If a neutral atom gains or loses an electron, it ___________.

is ionized

Molecules in the interstellar medium emit radiation at what wavelengths?

radio

The energy a photon carries is inversely proportional to __________.

its wavelength

What does a refracting telescope use to gather and focus light?

lens

Which atom is not a part of the CNO cycle?

lithium

What occurs on the surface of the Sun during a solar cycle minimum?

little to no sunspot activity

​The most common type of star is a(n) ____.

lower-main-sequence star

On the H-R diagram, 90 percent of all stars are ____.

main-sequence stars

To determine the structure of the interior of a star, astronomers must balance density, luminosity, and ____.

mass and temperature

Which form of radiation has the lowest frequency?

microwave

Clouds of gas and dust with densities ranging from 100s to 1000s particles per cubic centimeter, found deep inside the ISM, where it is protected from UV photons

molecular clouds

the coolest temperature

molecular clouds

As a blackbody becomes hotter it will radiate ____.

more energy, at a shorter wavelength of maximum intensity

​The interstellar medium is composed of mainly _____.

mostly gas and some dust

​Electromagnetic waves are generated whenever the ____.

motion of any charged particle changes

What unit is used to measure wavelengths?

nanometer

​Subatomic particles released from the proton-proton chain of nuclear fusion

neutrinos

What is a major selecting factor for astronomers looking to place a telescope atop a mountain?

non-turbulent airflow

During nuclear fusion, four hydrogen nuclei fuse into how many helium?​

one

Interstellar extinction and the reddening of light by the interstellar medium (ISM) are both caused by _____.

only dust in the ISM

What is the resistance of a gas to the flow of radiation?

opacity

​A supergiant star's radii may extend out to the _____.

orbit of saturn

The layer in the Sun from which visible photons most easily escape

photosphere

Arches of magnetic field visible in the chromosphere and corona

prominences

​The type of element is determined by the number of ____.

protons in the atom

T Tauri stars are understood to be relatively low-mass __________.

protostars

Brown dwarfs are ____.

protostars that could not ignite the fusion of hydrogen at their core

As the protostar contracts gravitationally, it will rotate faster and faster and produce a(n) ____.​

protostellar disk

Stellar winds and _____ will eventually blow away the protostellar disk and remnant cocoons of a protostar apart.​

radiation pressure

The sloped lines from top left to bottom right in the accompanying figure (Figure 9-1) are labeled ____.

radius

The Hertzsprung-Russell diagram can be labeled many different ways. Which coordinates CANNOT be used on an H-R diagram?

radius vs. temperature

Visible light with wavelengths at the long-wavelength end (λ = 700 nm) appears as which color?

red

​Which type of nebulae is produced when short-wavelength scatters from the dust and displays a blue hue?

reflection nebulae

Diffraction, optical quality, and atmospheric conditions all contribute to the limitations of what power of a telescope?

resolving power

Which power of a telescope reveals fine details within an image?

resolving power

What telescope instrument is used to counter the eastward rotation of Earth?

sidereal drive

​On the H-R diagram, lines of constant radius are illustrated as _____.

sloping downward from left to right

A breeze of low-density ionized gas streaming away from the Sun

solar wind

The temperature of the Sun is determined by measuring the __________ of sunlight.

spectrum

Flame-like structures that extend upward into the lower corona

spicules

Which of the natural forces bind atomic nuclei?

strong force

How do astronomers determine the distance to stars that are farther than 100 parsecs away?

subtracting absolute from apparent magnitudes

​Cool, relatively dark spots on the Sun's photosphere, usually appearing in group

sunspots

Which star has the largest diameter?

supergiant

The wavelength of maximum intensity is useful in measuring the ____.

surface temperatures of an object from their colors

The Balmer thermometer works because the strength of the Balmer lines depends on the _________ of the star's surface.

temperature

The horizontal axis in the accompanying figure (Figure 9-1) is labeled _____.

temperature

​The classification of stellar spectra started with the amount of hydrogen in the star's spectrum; however, now a better scheme uses the star's _____.

temperature

​Using Wien's law, you can measure the ____ of a distant object without having to travel to it.

temperature

The pressure of a gas depends on the ____ and ____ of the gas.

temperature; density

​A continuous spectrum is produced by ____.

​the intensity of agitation of atoms in a hot gas

The energy output of a surface is proportional to the temperature of the surface.

the Stefan-Boltzmann law

Which trigger could start the gravitational contraction of a molecular cloud?

the collision of molecular clouds

A protostar will continue to collapse due to gravity until it reaches the main sequence, and then gravitational collapse will stop when _____ begins.​

the fusion of hydrogen

​How many nuclear reactions occur in a proton-proton chain?

three

A certain type of atom can only absorb certain wavelengths.

true

A star's absolute brightness is calculated at a standard distance of 10 parsecs.​

true

A star's apparent magnitude is a measure of how bright it appears to us if it is at its actual distance.

true

All stars produce an absorption spectra.

true

All the elements heavier than helium on the periodic table, including the ones in your body, were created in the cores of massive stars.

true

An average star spends about 90% of its life on the main sequence.

true

At infrared wavelengths, the ISM glows with blackbody radiation emitted by the interstellar dust.

true

Atoms are mostly empty space.

true

Because blue light has a shorter wavelength than red light, it will be more readily scattered.

true

Convection is important in stars because it transports energy outward in the star.​

true

Elements such as carbon, silicon and oxygen have been produced in stars and expelled as stars age in the interstellar medium. This is most likely due to these elements having cooled and condensed from aging stars to form dust grains, and carried out by a powerful winds.

true

For stars that are too distant to have measurable parallaxes, their distances can be estimated from the star's spectral type, luminosity class, and apparent magnitude with a procedure called spectroscopic parallax.

true

Granules on the Sun's photosphere can be several thousand kilometers across.

true

Short-focal-length lenses and mirrors must be strongly curved.

true

A spectrograph spreads out light according to _______ to form a spectrum.

wavelength

The type of elements present in a gas can be determined by studying the ____.

wavelengths of photons absorbed or emitted from the gas

​Which star has the highest density (mass per unit volume)?

white dwarf

A blackbody with absolute temperature T has a wavelength of peak intensity λmax. If the temperature is tripled, the wavelength of peak intensity will become ________.

λmax/3

The corona can reach temperatures of up to ____.

​2,000,000 K

When mapping the interior of the Sun, astronomers must measure _____ as the photosphere moves up and down.

​Doppler shifts

​What type of electromagnetic radiation does Chandra collect?

​X-ray

​During the first reaction of the proton-proton chain of nuclear fusion, a weak force causes one of the protons to transform into a neutron and emit ____.

​a positron and a neutrino

​What technique often requires the use of a laser guide star?

​adaptive optics

An excited atom in which an electron is raised to a higher orbit.

​agitation and collision of atoms

​The position of an absorption or emission line is useful in determining the ____.

​chemical composition of an object

​The photons coming from blackbody radiation create a(n) ____ spectrum.

​continuous

Violent bursts of ionized gas ejected from magnetic fields that flow outward in the solar wind

​coronal mass ejection

What characteristic of a telescope controls the amount of light captured by the telescope?

​diameter of tube

​Each atom absorbs or emits a set of photon wavelengths unique to its element type.

​electron motion between energy levels

​The photons coming from an excited gas create a(n) ____ spectrum.

​emission

Which part of a telescope is responsible for magnifying an image?

​eyepiece

What methodology do astronomers use to map the inside of the Sun?

​helioseismology

​What is the most abundant element in the interstellar medium?

​hydrogen

​Photons of light can be absorbed by an atom of an element ____.

​if they match one of several possible wavelengths that are absorbed by that element

​Where would you most likely find a large radio telescope?

​in a mountain valley

​Where is the Trapezium found?

​in the Orion Nebula

The Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico is an example of the use of which astronomical technique?

​interferometry

Granulation is evidence that energy in the photosphere ____.

​is flowing upward

What is the upper limit of a brown dwarf's size?

​less than 0.08 solar masses

Hydrogen lines are weak in the spectra of hot O-type stars because ____.

​most of the hydrogen is ionized to high energy levels

​The Doppler effect is useful in measuring the ____.

​motion of an object toward or away from the observer

The binding energy is the amount of energy ____.

​needed to pull an electron completely away from the nucleus

Which is the correct order of the Sun's atmospheric layers, from the innermost to outermost?

​photosphere → chromosphere → corona

When two arches in a magnetic field encounter each other, ____ can cause powerful eruptions called ____.

​reconnection events; flares

​The pink color of the chromosphere is produced by the combined light of three emission lines of hydrogen: ____.

​red, blue, and violet

Which type of binary system have pairs of stars that are so close together that they look like one single point?​

​spectroscopic binary

The apparent change in the wavelength of a photon from a source caused by the relative motion of the source and the observer.

​the Doppler effect


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