Star Life Cycles
Across
- 4. What the Earth does to the Sun
- 5. Tool to determine the composition of stars
- 7. Mass is not ________ in a nuclear reaction
- 8. The color of the hottest stars are
- 11. EM radiation that your body emits most of
- 12. The heaviest element that can be made inside a star
- 17. Objects that are 3 times the mass of the Sun but only the size of Brooklyn
- 18. Where you would get spaghettified
- 20. The color of the sun
- 22. EM radiation with high frequency
- 24. How many years the sun will live for (roughly)
- 25. The process that generates energy in a star
- 27. Where fusion occurs
- 29. After a star's core runs out of hydrogen, it enters this stage
- 31. The most abundant element in the universe
- 34. An infant star
Down
- 1. A very massive star lives for ______ of years
- 2. The sun will become a ______ when it dies
- 3. The stage that stars spend 90% of their lives in
- 6. What scientists use to study stars
- 7. The remains of the "guest star" of 1054
- 9. A white dwarf (Hint: look at the reference table)
- 10. Less massive stars have long ones
- 13. Helium fuses into this element
- 14. What stars produce during main sequence
- 15. Explosion at the end of a massive star's life
- 16. In the EM spectrum, as energy increases ________ decreases
- 19. The state of matter that makes up the Sun
- 21. There are 92 natural ones
- 23. An element made during a supernova explosion
- 24. Variable on x-axis of HR diagram
- 26. Stellar nursery
- 28. Brightness
- 30. The force that holds stars together
- 32. A rapidly spinning neutron star
- 33. A star's ______ determines how long it lives for