Black Holes
Across
- 3. stars of this size are too big to end as white dwarfs and too small to become black holes, spend their dying years as neutron stars
- 5. the distance the light travels in one year
- 7. The apparent change in position of an object when you look at it from different places.
- 9. a measure of how much light energy a star gives off
- 13. how large a star is
- 14. scientist who proposed the theory of the Big Bang
- 16. How hot a star burns
- 17. the end of life for a super massive star; super dense. Even absorbs light!
- 18. a system of many stars, gas, and dust, held together by gravity
- 19. the tiny star that remains after a supernova explosion
Down
- 1. pretty much everything
- 2. the most massive and bright stars are these
- 4. the Doppler Effect as applied to light and stars
- 6. how bright a star seems from Earth
- 8. an increase in the frequency of sound, light, or other waves as the source and observer move toward or away from each other
- 10. breaks the light from an object into colors, used to tell the composition of stars and other heavenly objects
- 11. the idea that the Universe started as a super compressed dot that then exploded outwards and is still expanding
- 12. how bright a star would seem if it were our Sun
- 15. the compressed center of an old star after the outer layers blow away