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Answer ALL questions.

1 This question is about stars.

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(a) The diagram shows the orbits of two astronomical objects around a star.

object A

object B

star

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(i) Add a labelled arrow to the diagram to show the type of force from the star
acting on object A.
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(ii) What is object A?
(1)
A a comet
B a galaxy
C a moon
D a planet

(iii) What is object B?

(1)

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A a comet
B a galaxy
C a moon
D a planet

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(b) State the name given to a large collection of billions of stars.

(1)
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(c) Physicists classify stars according to their colour.

Each group of stars of similar colour is called a spectral class.
The table gives information about colour and surface temperature for three
spectral classes of stars.
The Sun belongs to spectral class G.

Surface temperature
Spectral class Colour
in kelvin

B blue-white

G yellow 5600
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M orange-red

Complete the table by suggesting values for the missing surface temperatures.
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(d) There are stars in the universe with masses much greater than the mass of the Sun.
Describe what happens to these high-mass stars when they leave the main sequence stage
of their evolution.
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(Total for Question 1 = 10 marks)

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