1ST DECEMEBER
Across
- 1. About 3.26 light years, used to measure cosmic distances
- 4. Extremely energetic explosion from a massive star collapse
- 6. Maximum mass of a stable white dwarf
- 7. DWARF Stellar remnant supported by electron degeneracy pressure
- 8. Bright orange giant marking the eye of Taurus
- 10. Region beyond Neptune filled with icy bodies
- 13. Fast-spinning star flattening at its poles
- 14. Ultra-dense stellar corpse made mostly of subatomic particles
- 15. Star toward which Earth’s axis will slowly shift
- 17. The lengthening of wavelengths as objects move away
Down
- 1. Rapidly spinning neutron star emitting regular beams of radiation
- 2. Extremely luminous active galactic nucleus powered by a black hole
- 3. Brightest star of Virgo and a close binary system
- 4. Sun-centered model of the solar system
- 5. Range of electromagnetic wavelengths emitted or absorbed
- 9. The boundary beyond which nothing escapes a black hole
- 11. Planet that orbits a star outside our solar system
- 12. Blue supergiant that outshines most of Orion
- 13. Red giant speeding unusually fast through the galaxy
- 16. One of the three stars forming the Winter Triangle