Big Bang Crossword puzzle
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- 2. American Astronomer who proved that what was thought to be clouds of dust and gas were actually galaxies beyond the Milky Way.
- 4. Astronomer who formulated the theory of stellar nucleosynthesis
- 9. an instrument that separates incoming light by its wavelength or frequency and records the resulting spectrum
- 10. American astronomer who, along with Arno Allan Penzias, discovered cosmic microwave background radiation in 1964. The pair won the 1978 Nobel prize in physics for their discovery.
- 11. CMB
- 13. The creation of the Universe
- 16. Oppoiste end of the Red Shift
- 17. Considered to be the smartest man to ever live
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- 1. The wavelengths of color visible by the human eye. These are determined by wavelengths that increase or decrease changing the color visible to us.
- 2. spectrum EM spectrum (EM radiation)
- 3. The chemical element with the atomic number 2 and the elemental symbol He
- 5. American physicist, radio astronomer and Nobel laureate in physics. Along with Robert Woodrow Wilson, he discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation, which helped establish the Big Bang theory of cosmology.
- 6. the capacity for doing work and causing change
- 7. The chemical element with the atomic number 1 and the elemental symbol H
- 8. that which all rests in, was the first thing to be created
- 12. The displacement of spectral lines towards those with longer wavelengths
- 14. gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter.
- 15. The study of space and the Universe