Year 10 Science (2015)

Note making sheet for Star trekking assessment task.

Question or Keywords

Website address

What is the url of the website?

Original information.

Copy and paste just the bit

from the webpage that
answers your question.
Highlight the main points that
answer your question.

My interpretation.

Use the text your highlighted t

write a paragraph in your own
words

What is Nebula?

http://aspire.cosmicray.org/Labs/StarLife/starlife_main
.html

Space may seem empty, but

actually it is filled with thinly
spread gas and dust. This gas and
dust is called interstellar medium.
The atoms of gas are mostly
hydrogen (H2), and the gas atoms
are typically about a centimeter
apart. The dust is mostly
microscopic grains and comprises
only a few percent of the matter
between stars. The dust is mostly
carbon and silicon. In some
places, this interstellar medium is
collected into a big cloud of dust
and gas known as a nebula.

Nebula is a large cloud with

trapped gases and dust inside
which are hard to see, as they are
very small particles. The atoms of
the gas are most commonly
Hydrogen. Nebula can be seen as
all different colours and are
thousands of light years long.

How are stars created?

http://aspire.cosmicray.org/Labs/StarLife/starlife_main
.html

Nebula is the birthplace of

stars because the gas and dust
is what makes up a star.

A star is created in Nebula

however many stars at
once can be created in one
nebula. This is done by the
tiny dust particles and
gases mixing together to
slowly birth a star over
thousands of years.

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What are the

lifecycle
stages?

http://aspire.cosmi
cray.org/Labs/StarLif
e/starlife_main.ht
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What are stars?

http://www.astro.keele.ac.uk/w
orkx/starlife/StarpageS_26M.ht
ml

Stars are hot bodies of glowing

gas that start their life in
Nebulae. They vary in size,
mass and temperature,
diameters ranging from 450x
smaller to over 1000x larger
than that of the Sun. Masses
range from a twentieth to over
50 solar masses and surface
temperature can range from
3,000 degrees Celcius to over
50,000 degrees Celcius.
The colour of a star is
determined by its temperature,
the hottest stars are blue and
the coolest stars are red. The
Sun has a surface temperature
of 5,500 degrees Celcius, its
colour appears yellow.
The energy produced by the
star is by nuclear fusion in the
stars core. The brightness is
measured in magnitude, the
brighter the star the lower the
magnitude goes down.

Stars grow similarly to us

humans, they start as a
baby grow to an adult
staying at that age for
majority of their life and
then lose energy becoming
a white dwarf or black hole
likewise becoming old as a
human.
The order is Protostar,
fusion ignition following a
main sequence, supergiant,
white dwarf or black hole.
Stars vary in their colour,
size, mass and
temperature. They are
bodies of hot glowing gas
that can range from 3,000
to 50,000 degrees Celsius;
this is why we can see
some because of how
bright it is due to the
temperature. The
temperature also
determines the colour, the
hottest stars are blue and
closest to earth and red
stars are moving away from
earth which are cooler.

Acknowledgement to J. Wilkes & C. Lawton. Modified by l. Brush (2006).

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