Which of these star clusters is oldest?
A team of astronomers using the Gemini-South telescope has discovered one of the oldest stellar clusters in the Milky Way. The team’s results date the globular cluster, named HP 1, at about 12.8 billion years, making its stars among the oldest ever found in our Galaxy.
Which group represents the most common type of stars?
Yellow dwarfs are small, main sequence stars. The Sun is a yellow dwarf. A red dwarf is a small, cool, very faint, main sequence star whose surface temperature is under about 4,000 K. Red dwarfs are the most common type of star.
Which star has the largest diameter?
Betelgeuse
Who developed the HR diagram?
Ejnar Hertzsprung
Where do we find our star on the HR diagram?
The H-R Diagram The diagonal strip is called the main sequence. Main sequence stars are hydrogen-burning stars like our Sun. More massive main sequence stars are hotter, and are found at the top left of the strip. Less massive stars are cooler, and are found at the bottom right.
What are the 4 types of stars in the HR diagram?
The Supergiants are cool stars, which are very large and very bright. They are located towards the top right of the graph. The Giants are cool stars, which are a little smaller and dimmer than the Supergiants. The White Dwarfs are very hot stars, which are small in size and relatively dim.
What two main characteristics of stars does the HR diagram graph?
The Hertzsprung–Russell diagram, or H–R diagram, is a plot of stellar luminosity against surface temperature. Most stars lie on the main sequence, which extends diagonally across the H–R diagram from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity.
What is the biggest difference between a star and a protostar?
The fundamental difference between a protostar and a star is that the latter has nuclear fusion as its energy source and the former does not. The birth of stars is a battle between gravity and radiation pressure. It takes about 1032 hydrogen atoms to make a star.
What is the color of the hottest stars?
Blue
Who is big star or sun?
Although the Sun appears larger to us than any other star, there are many stars which are much larger. The Sun appears so large compared to the other stars because it is so much closer to us than any other star. The Sun is just an average sized star.
How many Earths can fit in the universe?
Dividing the volume of the Milky Way by the volume of the Earth, you get (6.7 X 10^(51))/(10^12) =~ 6.7 X 10^(39) Earths that can fit in the volume of the Milky Way galaxy.