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Unit 2 Lesson 2 Stars
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Unit 2 Lesson 2 Stars
Florida Benchmarks
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• SC.8.N.1.6 Understand that scientific investigations involve the collection of relevant empirical evidence, the use of logical reasoning, and the application of imagination in devising hypotheses, predictions, explanations and models to make sense of the collected evidence.
• SC.8.N.3.1 Select models useful in relating the
results of their own investigations.
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• SC.8.E.5.5 Describe and classify specific physical properties of stars: apparent magnitude (brightness), temperature (color), size, and luminosity (absolute brightness).
Reach for the Stars!
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What is a star?
• A star is a large celestial body that is composed of gas and emits light.
• Stars are made mostly of hydrogen and helium.
They also contain other elements in small amounts.
• Stars emit light and vary in brightness.
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What is a star?
• The temperatures of stars vary, resulting in differences in color.
• Stars range in color from red, which indicates a
cool star, to blue, which indicates a very hot star. • The sun is a relatively cool yellow star.
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What is a star?
• Stars have different sizes, ranging from 1/100 the size of the sun to 1,000 times the size of the sun.
• Two or more stars may be bound together by
gravity, which causes them to orbit each other. • Three or more stars that are bound by gravity are
called multiple stars or multiple star systems.
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What is a star?
• The sun is a star and is composed mostly of hydrogen and helium. It also contains oxygen, carbon, neon, and iron.
• At the center of the sun lies the core, where gases
are compressed and heated and temperatures reach 15 million degrees Celsius.
• The sun’s core is where matter is converted into
energy.
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What is a star?
• The sun’s atmosphere has several layers and extends millions of kilometers into space.
• The photosphere is the layer of the sun’s
atmosphere we see from Earth. It has an average temperature of 5,527 °C.
• Energy is transferred from the sun’s core to the
photosphere and escapes into space as visible light, other forms of radiation, heat, and wind.
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What is a star?
• The sun’s middle atmosphere is called the chromosphere. Its temperatures range from 4,225 °C to 6,000 °C.
• In the sun’s outer atmosphere, or corona,
temperatures may reach 2 million degrees Celsius.
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You’re a Shining Star
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How is star brightness measured?
• Apparent magnitude is the measure of a star’s brightness as seen from Earth.
• Ancient astronomers, using only their eyes,
described star brightness by magnitude. • They called the brightest stars they could see first
magnitude and the faintest stars they could see sixth magnitude.
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How is star brightness measured?
• Astronomers using telescopes see many stars that are too dim to see with the unaided eye. They added to the magnitude system.
• Today, the brightest stars have a magnitude of
about –2, and the faintest stars that we can see with a telescope have a magnitude of +30.
• Dim stars have positive (larger) numbers, and
bright stars have negative (smaller) numbers.
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How is star luminosity measured?
• When astronomers use the word luminosity, they mean the actual brightness of a star. They measure it on a scale called absolute magnitude.
• Absolute magnitude is a measure of how bright
a star would be if the star were located at a standard distance.
• Absolute magnitude is a measure of the
brightness of a star whose distance from Earth is known.
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How is star luminosity measured?
• Stars with the same absolute magnitude may have different apparent magnitudes.
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Too Hot to Handle
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How are the surface temperatures of stars measured? • Stars have different colors. • The differences in the colors of stars are due to
differences in their surface temperatures. • The same is true of all objects that glow.
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How are the surface temperatures of stars measured? • If an object’s color depends only on temperature,
the object is called a blackbody. • As the temperature of a blackbody rises, it glows
brighter and brighter red. • As it gets hotter, its color changes to orange,
yellow, white, and blue-white.
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How are the surface temperatures of stars measured? • Stars that have the lowest surface temperatures
(below 3,500 °C) are red. • Stars that have the highest surface temperatures
(above 25,000 °C) are blue.
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How are the sizes of stars measured?
• Stars differ greatly in size. • Some are about the same size as Earth, and
others are larger than the size of Earth’s orbit around the sun.
• Astronomers use the size of the sun to describe
the size of other stars.
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How are the sizes of stars measured?
• Very small stars, called white dwarfs, have about the same radius as Earth, which is approximately 0.01 solar radius.
• Very large stars, called giant stars, typically have
sizes between 10 and 100 times the sun’s radius. • Some rare, extremely large stars have sizes of up
to 1,000 solar radii. They are called supergiants.
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How are the sizes of stars measured?
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• Compare the sizes and temperatures of the red, blue, and yellow stars.