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| # | Definition | Sets | |
| 1 | late stage in the life cycle of a comparatively low-mass main sequence star; formed when its core depletes its helium and its outer layers escape into space, leaving behind a hot, dense core | 13 sets | |
| 2 | a dim star that forms from a collapsed red giant | 11 sets | |
| 3 | late stage in the life cycle of a main sequence star in which its core uses up its helium and its outer layers escape into space, leaving behind a hot, dense core | 7 sets | |
| 4 | a faint star of enormous density | 5 sets | |
| 5 | late stage of an average star's life after fusion when core contracts and emits light due to its heat and the outer layers escape, | 4 sets | |
| 6 | small dense dead star, very hot due to its gravitational collapse, no fusion going on, made up of normal matter (electrons orbiting the atoms nucleus) | 4 sets | |
| 7 | a small, hot star near the end of its life; the leftover center of an old star | 4 sets | |
| 8 | small dense star | 4 sets | |
| 9 | the remaining hot core of a star after its outer layers have expanded and drifted out into space | 3 sets | |
| 10 | when small stars collapse as they die | 3 sets | |
| 11 | the remaining hot core of a star after its outer layers have expanded and drifted out into space. | 3 sets | |
| 12 | a very small dying star that gives off very little light | 3 sets | |
| 13 | a small, hot, dim star that is the leftover center of an old star | 3 sets | |
| 14 | stage in which a star has used up its helium and its outer layers escape into space, leaving behind a hot, dense core that contracts | 2 sets | |
| 15 | a star near the end of its life | 2 sets | |
| 16 | what will our sun become after a planetary nebula? | 2 sets | |
| 17 | a red giant at the end stage of its evolution will throw off mass and leave behind a very small (the size of the earth), very dense star in which no nuclear reactions take place. it is very hot but its small size gives it a very low luminosity. | 2 sets | |
| 18 | a low-mass stellar remnant that has exhausted all its thermonuclear fuel and contracted to a size roughly equal to the size of the earth | 2 sets | |
| 19 | the blue-white hot core of a star that is left behind after its outer layers have expanded and drifted out into space | 2 sets | |
| 20 | the smallest type of star | 2 sets | |
| 21 | an old very dense star | 2 sets | |
| 22 | still hot stored energy, about the size of earth | 2 sets | |
| 23 | a star after being a red giant and has lost most of its fuel | 1 set | |
| 24 | this is after the supernova and its just a big white ball. | 1 set | |
| 25 | when nebula disperses gravity causes the remaining matter to collapse inword | 1 set | |
| 26 | star that has exhausted most or all of its nuclear fuel and has collapsed | 1 set | |
| 27 | a hot white low mass star ending as a dark star | 1 set | |
| 28 | blue-white core of the star that is left cools and becomes a white dwarf | 1 set | |
| 29 | sun-like star that is near the end of its life; how our sun will end up some day | 1 set | |
| 30 | small, dense-> can be more massive than the sun, spoonful weighs several tons, atoms take up less space, electrons displaced inward,(degenrate matter), hot surface, cools to become black dwarf. | 1 set | |
| 31 | less massive red giant that is loosing strength, or final stages of cepheid | 1 set | |
| 32 | a dying star that has collapsed to the size of the earth and is slowly cooling off. | 1 set | |
| 33 | a ________________ is a star near the end of it's life. | 1 set | |
| 34 | the blue-white part of the star that is left behind and cools | 1 set | |
| 35 | giant star that has its outer layers leaving behind a hot, dense core that continues to contract under gravity | 1 set | |
| 36 | the small, dense but dim remains of a low or medium mass star. | 1 set | |
| 37 | the star cools and shrinks; it will eventually be only a few thousand miles in diameter! no nuclear reactions take place and the faint star radiates its heat into space | 1 set | |
| 38 | occurs when the star has used up all the energy and begins to cool further and condense | 1 set | |
| 39 | a late stage in a star's life cycle when its core runs out of fuel(helium) and its unstable outer layers escape into space, leaving the hot dense core. | 1 set | |
| 40 | a "tiny" collapsed star about the size of a planet near the end of its nuclear fusion period; white and very hot | 1 set | |