Astrophysics for People in a Hurry

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Across
  1. 4. Project to create the first nuclear bombs; spooky ghost story ship involved
  2. 6. Discoverer of UV radiation.
  3. 10. The asteroid named after Neil-deGrasse Tyson.
  4. 12. chemical compound O3
  5. 15. The nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
  6. 16. The acronym for the world’s largest radio telescope.
  7. 18. Wavelengths shorter than visible light.
  8. 20. A physical field involving the effect of magnetism on objects.
  9. 21. A neutral particle and lepton that rarely interacts with normal matter.
  10. 22. the universe is probably one of these, planets are these, surface tension favors these. round.
  11. 24. An instrument in which the interference of two beams of light is employed to make precise measurements.
  12. 27. Apply quantum theory to, in particular, restrict the number of possible values of a quantity or states of a system so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete ones.
  13. 28. Particles smaller than atoms.
  14. 29. The explosion of a giant star.
  15. 30. Two stars, caught in each other’s orbit. One day, perhaps, one will destroy the other in their collision.
  16. 32. The star system the closest exoplanet is in.
  17. 33. These carry light.
  18. 34. Wavelengths longer than visible light.
  19. 35. The name of the asteroid belt that Pluto is in, and the remains from our star system forming.
  20. 36. Pluto’s moon that it is tide locked by and has tide locked.
  21. 37. Inventor of the first radio telescope.
  22. 38. The time before 10-43 seconds after the big bang.
  23. 40. The phenomenon caused by high energy particles being deflected by magnetic fields and drawn to the North and South Poles.
Down
  1. 1. These gravitational fields are used for launching probes further out into space.
  2. 2. The planet that deters most of the large asteroids that would hit earth.
  3. 3. Up and Down, Charmed and strange.
  4. 5. One of Jupiter’s moons; it is tidally locked on Jupiter.
  5. 7. The range of electromagnetic radiation.
  6. 8. Neutron stars with pulses of radiation, like a lighthouse beam.
  7. 9. A machine that the movement of never stops, which isn’t possible under gravitational forces.
  8. 11. The study of the relations between heat, work, temperature, and energy.
  9. 13. Currently the largest particle collider.
  10. 14. The kind of telescope, aside from X-ray telescopes, used to observe emissions from black holes and supermassive black holes.
  11. 17. The plural form of the word meaning an image or distribution of components of sound, particles, etc., arranged according to such characteristics as frequency, charge, and energy.
  12. 19. Ten radio telescopes in New mexico. How long.
  13. 23. I hate the concept of this. Matter that doesn’t have an observable effect aside from gravity irritates me. I hate it.
  14. 25. The bright, distant cores of galaxies.
  15. 26. a fairly light element, destroyed by all known nuclear reactions.
  16. 31. The first name of the king that Sir William Herschel tried to name Uranus after
  17. 39. The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet.