Stars
Across
- 2. a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year
- 4. a corresponding line on a planet or other body
- 5. an obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination
- 7. a small compact particle of a substance
- 10. a reddish gaseous layer immediately above the photosphere of the sun or another star. together with the corona, it constitutes the star's outer atmosphere
Down
- 1. a brief eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun's surface
- 3. the luminous envelope of a star from which its light and heat radiate
- 6. a state in which opposing forces are balanced
- 8. a spot appearing on the suns surface, dark in contrast to its surroundings
- 9. the rarefied gaseous envelope of the sun and other stars