ASTR&100 Final Exam Crossword
Across
- 2. what make the Milky Way a spiral galaxy
- 5. large ball of gas undergoing nuclear fusion
- 11. home to the Milky Way’s
- 14. early 20th century astronomer (and now a space telescope)
- 17. energy generation process in star’s core
- 19. discovered that most spiral galaxies contain
- 20. determines a star’s lifetime
- 22. two-faced Saturnian moon
- 24. Asteroid or Kuiper
- 26. Milky Way galaxy type, specifically
- 28. skydiving hotspot
- 31. Arcturus, Aldebaran, and the Sun…someday (two words)
- 33. primary component of Saturn’s rings
- 34. famous short period comet, will be back in ‘61
- 37. planet smaller than some moons
- 40. a planet, but not in our solar system (prefix)
- 43. Brahe pet
- 44. breakfast food analogy for the Milky Way (two words)
- 45. crater-covered outermost Galilean moon
- 46. the stars near the Sun (abbrev.)
- 47. important solar mass threshold
- 48. Our
- 49. Important boundary in protoplanetary disk (two words)
- 51. closest star to Sun: ________ Centauri
- 52. discoverer of elemental abundances (two words)
- 53. what the Drake Equation seeks
- 54. tidal heating produces this on Europa, possibly other moons
- 56. big boom; two types
- 58. dwarf “star” that’s no longer a star
- 59. famous diagram, for short
- 61. home to CH4 lakes and seas
- 63. instigator of the “What is a Planet?” debate
- 64. number of Galilean Moons
- 65. Death Star-esque moon
- 67. not an explosion, but an expansion (two words)
- 68. in main sequence stars, the product of
- 69. home to most of Milky Way’s stars, gas, and dust
Down
- 1. exoplanet hunting space telescope (abbrev.)
- 3. dwarf star that lives “forever”
- 4. Mercury does it, so do exoplanets from time to time
- 6. number of planets in our SS with no moons
- 7. all the giant planets have them
- 8. If only I had been able to clear my neighborhood…
- 9. all space and matter that exists
- 10. requirement for life?
- 12. baby picture of the universe (abbrev.)
- 13. useful variable stars
- 15. two stars in orbit around a common center of mass
- 16. temperature-indicating absorption line
- 18. ice giant
- 21. first astronomer to measure galaxy
- 23. substance that makes Neptune & Uranus blue
- 25. The Milky Way, for example
- 27. most common type of matter and energy in universe
- 29. expanding universe smoking gun
- 30. avg distance between Earth and Sun (abbrev.)
- 32. old star cluster
- 35. “clumping” process that formed planetesimals
- 36. state of matter in
- 38. its escape velocity exceeds that of light
- 39. type of galaxy without
- 41. young star cluster
- 42. stellar property determined by luminosity and distance (abbrev.)
- 46. determined period/luminosity relationship for
- 50. unstable (in certain circumstances…) cloud (abbrev.)
- 55. It’s an asteroid and a dwarf planet
- 57. stars, ordered by spectral class
- 60. number of planets visible without telescope
- 62. any “cloudy” thing in space
- 66. 2nd smallest planet in our SS