Astronomy 101 Chapter 13 Crossword
Across
- 4. First exoplanet was detected in 1992, orbiting this type of star
- 5. Hot Jupiters have high __________________
- 7. This is when a planet moves in front of a star
- 13. Method of detecting planets
- 16. Technique of planet detection
- 17. The Sun moves in response to ____________ from Jupiter, and all the planets
- 18. When a star is moving toward us, its light is ________________
- 19. A sun-like star is about one ________________ times as bright as the light from its planets
- 20. The Doppler method can tell us the _____________ of a planet, but not always precisely
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- 1. This is when a planet move behind a star
- 2. Way in which astronomer detect most exoplanets
- 3. This mission looks for Earth-like exoplanets
- 6. Theory to explain close in Jovian planets in exosystems
- 8. The transit method can tell us the ____________ of a planet
- 9. Astronomer responsible for figuring out other stars were also suns
- 10. Planets outside our own solar system
- 11. These exoplanets are jovian, and orbit very close to their parent stars
- 12. With both eclipses and transits of planets we look for changes in this
- 14. When a star is moving away from us, its light is _____________
- 15. Hot Jupiters have very short ______________