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The Astronomy Book -- study guide: Lesson 10

Table
of Contents

Lesson 1
Introduction
Lesson 2
What is astronomy?
Lesson 3
How big is the universe?
Lesson 4
The origin of the universe
Lesson 5
Watching the sky
Lesson 6
Why did God created the heavenly bodies?
Lesson 7
Space exploration
Lesson 8
A Tour of the Solar System
Lesson 9
A Tour of the Solar System—The Sun and the Moon
Lesson 10
Stars and galaxies
Lesson 11
Cosmic Catastrophes
Lesson 12
Catastrophes in the Solar System
Lesson 13
Are there other planets in the Solar System?
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The Astronomy Book
by Dr Jonathan Henry

Lesson 10

Stars and galaxies

Textbook:

The Astronomy Book

Text:

pp. 50-55

Scripture:

Genesis 1:15, 16
Judges 5:20
Psalm 147:4

Vocabulary Words

  • Incandescent
  • Spectrum
  • Prism
  • Spectral analysis
  • Stellar magnitudes
  • Black hole
  • Galaxy

Questions:

  1. Write an essay (at least 3 paragraphs) describing the composition of stars.
  2. What are the colors in the spectrum? (Hint: there are 7 colors and they can be remembered by a name, ‘Roy G Biv’.)
  3. Anna Jump Cannon is the lady scientist responsible for developing the current classification scheme of dividing stars into their spectral classes (O,B,A,F,G,K,M). Write a research paper on her life and work.
  4. Henrietta Swan Leavitt worked on developing a way to measure the distance to stars. Find out more about her from Creation Evolution Headlines’ Index to Scientist Biographies, and write a research paper about her life and work.
  5. How do stars differ from each other?
  6. What is a ‘black hole’? (See also Black holes in space don’t support evolution!).
  7. In what galaxy is Earth located?

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