Chapter 11
Across
- 3. What color are the hottest stars?
- 5. What type of star is an extremely dense, compact object created from the remnant of a supernova?
- 7. What is a large cloud of gas and dust where stars are born?
- 10. What is a group of stars forming a recognizable pattern in the sky called?
- 12. What force causes the formation of stars from nebulae?
- 15. What is the explosive death of a massive star called?
- 16. What unit is used to measure the vast distances between stars?
- 17. What is the shape of the Milky Way galaxy?
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- 1. What is a group of galaxies bound together by gravity called?
- 2. What is the nuclear process that powers a star?
- 4. What is the closest star to Earth?
- 6. What type of galaxy is shaped like a flattened ball or oval?
- 8. What characteristic of a star is also known as its luminosity?
- 9. What type of galaxy has no specific shape?
- 11. What term describes all of space and everything in it, including stars, galaxies, and planets?
- 13. What color are the coolest stars?
- 14. What is a massive system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, and dust bound together by gravity?