What characteristics of the stars must we know to measure the masses of the stars in a binary system? Their orbital period and average orbital distance. The star is a member of an eclipsing binary star system.

Which units are appropriate for measurement of apparent brightness? Watts per square meter (Apparent brightness is defined as the power of starlight reaching us per unit area. Power has units of watts and area has units of square meters.)

The apparent brightness of a star is related to its luminosity and distance by the formula: The total energy in this cone is fixed… At a larger distance from the star, the same amount of energy is spread into a larger area. Thus, the apparent brightness of a star is lower if we are further away from it.

Which group represents stars that have no ongoing nuclear fusion? b. White dwarfs no longer generate energy through fusion. You observe a star and you want to plot it on an H-R diagram.

About half of all known stars are more massive; about half have less mass. At the top end of the scale, the most massive known star in the sky is R136a1, a star more than 300 times as massive as our sun.

Which is more common: a star blows up as a supernova, or a star forms a planetary nebula/white dwarf system? Planetary nebula formation is more common.

The period of the variations in KIC 9832227 has been observed to be growing shorter since 2013, leading to the prediction of the merger in 2022. The cause for the period variation is still unknown, but it is unlikely that the system will end in a merger at the predicted time.

During interphase, the cell undergoes normal growth processes while also preparing for cell division. It is the longest phase of the cell cycle, cell spends approximately 90% of its time in this phase.

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When the helium fuel runs out, the core will expand and cool. The upper layers will expand and eject material that will collect around the dying star to form a planetary nebula. Finally, the core will cool into a white dwarf and then eventually into a black dwarf. This entire process will take a few billion years.

Stars die because they exhaust their nuclear fuel. The events at the end of a star’s life depend on its mass. Once there is no fuel left, the star collapses and the outer layers explode as a ‘supernova’.

After a star dies, there is still some residual heat left over. That heat makes the star (white dwarf or neutron star) glow, even though it is not producing any energy. Eventually, the star cools off and does indeed simply become a hunk of ash, which we call a “black dwarf.”

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0. 0. Particles of matter that fall from the stars down to Earth; often used idiomatically to suggest a fanciful or dreamlike quality. My sister’s eyes were full of stardust, and she’d spend hours lazily planning her future life when she would make her big break in the movies.

All We Have are the Connections We Make By gazing, we connect. We stretch the invisible line between our eyes and the object, and realize not only we ourselves exist, other things in the universe, too, exist. That is, we share the time and space with objects in the universe.

Astronomers today have seen objects 13 billion light years away in a universe 13.7 billion years old containing hundreds of billions of galaxies. We are peripherally located in one of those galaxies, known as the Milky Way.

The universe that surrounds us is vast, and we are so very small. When we reflect on the vastness of the universe, our humdrum cosmic location, and the inevitable future demise of humanity, our lives can seem utterly insignificant.

Shape of the observable universe The observable universe can be thought of as a sphere that extends outwards from any observation point for 46.5 billion light-years, going farther back in time and more redshifted the more distant away one looks.

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