Astronomy
Across
- 2. used for measuring distances in the sky
- 5. atom left with positive charge
- 8. distance to an imaginary star whose parallax is 1 second of arc
- 9. classify stars into nine principal types
- 10. energy required to remove it from the atom
- 11. produced when electrons jump from higher energy levels back down to lower energy levels
- 12. atom with least possible energy
- 13. spectrum of stars
- 15. pellet of light
- 16. smallest part of a chemical element
Down
- 1. lines named after Joseph von Fraunhofer
- 3. produced when an atom of chemical element absorbs light and the electrons jump out to higher energy levels
- 4. analysis of spectra
- 6. tells the chemical element that it absorbs
- 7. electron orbits
- 14. position and motion of stars