1ST DECEMEBER

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