Star Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. a large cloud of gas and dust in space
  2. 6. the brightness of a star as seen from Earth
  3. 9. an instrument that forms enlarged images of distance objects
  4. 10. the distance that light travels in one year
  5. 11. the brilliant explosion of a dying supergiant star
  6. 12. an object whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape
Down
  1. 1. a pattern of grouping of stars that people imagine as a figure or object
  2. 2. the blue-white hot core of a star that is left behind after it's outer layers have expanded into space
  3. 4. a huge group of single stars, star system, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
  4. 5. all of space and everything in it
  5. 7. a contracting cloud of gas and dust with enough mass to form a star
  6. 8. an instrument that separates light into colors