Birth of a star

12 questions

1. Which of these statements about the Sun are correct?
2. What shape are stars?
3. What would the Sun look like if it were two times further away?
4. Why do stars appear to move across the night sky, with their movement repeated once each day?
5. Why can you only see stars at night?
6. Match each object in space to the correct description.
7. How does the size of the Sun compare to the size of other stars?
8. The Sun is one of about 300 billion stars in the ___ galaxy.
9. What sort of reaction inside the core of a star causes it to become very, very hot?
10. What is a nebula typically made of?
11. A huge spinning ball of very hot, dense gas that forms from a collapsing nebula is called a ___.
12. Put each stage in the early life of a star in the correct order, starting with the first.

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