SPACE
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- 6. How much matter something contains.
- 7. Forms after a star has run out of hydrogen fuel for nuclear fusion, and has begun the process of dying.
- 11. The complete range of all types of radiation that has both electric and magnetic fields and travels in waves.
- 15. Formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses.
- 16. The force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.
- 18. The explosion of a star.
- 20. Gaseous cloud from which, in the so-called nebular hypothesis of the origin of the solar system, the Sun and planets formed by condensation.
- 21. Very bright, distant and active supermassive black holes that are millions to billions of times the mass of the Sun.
- 22. A group of stars that appears to form a pattern or picture.
- 23. Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun.
- 24. The stellar core left behind after a dying star has exhausted its nuclear fuel and expelled its outer layers to form a planetary nebula.
- 25. Graph in which the absolute magnitudes (intrinsic brightness) of stars are plotted against their spectral types (temperatures).
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- 1. Brightest star in the night sky.
- 2. How bright an object appears in the sky from Earth.
- 3. The angle between the Earth at one time of year, and the Earth six months later, as measured from a nearby star.
- 4. Pair of stars in orbit around their common center of gravity.
- 5. The force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center.
- 8. A dense central bulge lies at the center of a rotating disc, which features a spiral structure that originates at the bulge.
- 9. Looks like a star but its core is not yet hot enough for fusion to take place.
- 10. A measure of its resistance to a change in the state of its motion.
- 12. The apparent magnitude an object would have if it were located at a distance of 10 parsecs.
- 13. A streak of light in the sky caused by a meteoroid crashing through Earth's atmosphere.
- 14. Rotating neutron stars observed to have pulses of radiation at very regular intervals that typically range from milliseconds to seconds.
- 17. Two light nuclei merge to form a single heavier nucleus.
- 19. Formed when a massive star runs out of fuel and collapses.