Solar system
Across
- 5. the distance that light travels in one year
- 6. a stars brightness the star would have if it were at a standard distance from earth.
- 7. all of space and everything in it
- 8. a large cloud of gas and dust containing an immense volume of material.
- 9. the blue-white core that is left behind cools
- 11. a contracting cloud of gas and dust with enough mass to form a star
- 12. a more accurate scale of the entire solar system
Down
- 1. states that the universe formed in an instant, billions of years ago, in an enormous explosion.
- 2. a group of single stars, star system, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
- 3. a supergiant runs out of fuel, within hours the star blazes millions of times brighter.
- 4. a stars brightness as seen from earth
- 10. examine