PAC
Across
- 3. A Jewish Scientist, a true polyglot, he may have tried to poison his professor once
- 6. part of the designation for the brightest star in a constellation
- 9. a favorite constellation in October
- 11. Wonder Boys of the Apollo 11 Flight Control Team, two young men whose ages combined to equal 50.
- 14. an organization that studies the intersection between space exploration and humanity
- 16. lingo for an astronomical tool
- 17. location of the Haystack radio telescope
- 20. Wonder Boys of the Apollo 11 Flight Control Team, two young men whose ages combined to equal 50
Down
- 1. These high-energy particles originating from space constantly bombard Earth's atmosphere and can pose a threat to astronauts and spacecraft.
- 2. a nickname for one of the constellations depicting a female
- 4. an alkaline earth element used in special solar filters
- 5. though the neutrino was first postulated by Pauli, who was Italian physicist who put in on strong theoretical foundation
- 7. a word to describe a rogue comet
- 8. poet who partially solved Olbers’ paradox (first proposed by Kepler)
- 10. part of the constellation Argo Navis
- 12. a kind of light detector, especially for long wavelengths
- 13. American aerospace engineer whose advocacy for lunar orbit rendezvous (LOR) significantly influenced NASA's approach to landing astronauts on the Moon during the Apollo program.
- 15. a zodiac constellation
- 18. a demarcation or horizon in a black hole that on one side of it we have freedom to move in space but time inexorably moves on, whole on the other things are reversed–we have freedone to go anytime in time but are inexorably stuck in space
- 19. a space telescope
- 21. this is blue at high noon because of Rayleigh scattering