What Are Stars Made Of?

by: Page Keeley and Cary Sneider

The purpose of this assessment probe is to elicit students’ ideas about how astronomers investigate the composition of stars. The probe is designed to see if students recognize that the colors from the light given off by a star (its spectrum) reveal information about the composition of a star.

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