7th-8th Grade Ch. 3 Science Test (Stars), Part 2

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Sir Isaac Newton discovered that white light is made up of various colors.

A star with a negative magnitude is brighter than a star with a positive magnitude.

The star with the greatest apparent magnitude is the sun.

The first telescopes used lenses rather than mirrors to gather light.

Astronomers determine a star's red shift in order to determine its temperature.

This is a star that sometimes increases many magnitudes in brilliance for a period of time, then returns to its normal brihgtness.

The human eye is more sensitive to light than the best CCD camera.

This is the measure of a brightness of a star.