Deep Sky Objects
Across
- 2. After being born in a starbirth nebula, stars spend their early years in ____ clusters.
- 5. The Milky Way is this type of galaxy, due to it's shape.
- 6. Our star will become one of these, in about 5 billion years.
- 10. These objects contain some of the oldest stars known to astronomers.
- 12. Calcium in your bones and teeth, and iron in your blood is made in the core of ______.
- 16. The Whirlpool galaxy can be found just below this constellation, who used the be the woman Callisto.
- 19. The orion nebula is an example of a _________ nebula.
Down
- 1. When a star the size of Betelgeuse dies, a ________ remnant, like the Crab Nebula is left over.
- 3. I am considered the Milky Way's sister galaxy.
- 4. At the center of a planetary nebula lies a ______ dwarf, the core of the former star.
- 7. At the core of every star ________ fusion takes place to generate energy.
- 8. When a star the size of our sun dies, it leaves behind a _________ nebula.
- 9. When Betelgeuse dies, this very exotic object could be left behind.
- 11. This beautifully coloured object can be seen with the Plaskett Telescope and is a planetary nebula.
- 13. I come in all different shapes and sizes, including elliptical.
- 14. The globular cluster M13 can be found in this sneaky man, who managed to get the golden apple.
- 15. Red stars are generally _______ in temperature than blue stars.
- 17. Charles _______ catalogued hundreds of deep sky objects.
- 18. Spilt milk?
- 20. This star makes up the foot of Orion the Hunter, and gives Astronomers an idea of what Betelgeuse might have looked like back in the day.