Life Cycle of Stars
Across
- 4. The stars heats up and hydrogen is converted to helium
- 9. These stars use up their fuel more quickly
- 10. forms from the outer layers of hydrogen and helium that are cast off when a red giant becomes a white dwarf
- 13. These stars form from small supergiants
- 17. The brightness of a star's light is called
- 19. The most massive stars form ____ in their core
- 20. Huge cold clouds of gas and dust
- 21. A white dwarf that has cooled
Down
- 1. When a massive star runs out of hydrogen, it turns into this type of star
- 2. These stars have no fuel, but glow from leftover energy
- 3. Stars spend most of their lives here as long as hydrogen fuses into helium
- 5. A star that is more massive than the sun may live only about ten _____ years
- 6. These stars are rich in hydrogen
- 7. A place in space where gravity is so great that light can't escape
- 8. this
- 11. How long a star lives depends on its
- 12. The earliest stage of a star's life in which the contracting cloud heats up and
- 14. Stars that have less mass then the sun can live up to ____ billion years
- 15. The explosion of a large star that causes heavier elements to form
- 16. medium-mass star will live for about ___ billion years
- 18. Once medium-sized stars run out of nuclear fuel, the star becomes a