Stars an Galaxies crossword
Across
- 3. the sun is on the edge of the ______?
- 6. a fairly bright star located within one degree of the north celestial pole
- 7. when a star runs out of fuel to burn
- 9. the first stage of a small and medium star
- 11. compact objects that are created in the core of massive stars
- 15. a scatter graph of stars showing the relationship between the stars absolute magnitude
- 20. the galaxy that contains middle aged stars
- 21. early stage in the evolution of a star
- 22. the galaxy that contains young stars
- 23. distance that light travels in a year
- 24. measurment of brightness
Down
- 1. a cluster of stars,gas, and dust that are held together by gravity
- 2. the remnants of very massive stars with gravity so strong not even light can escape it
- 4. a measure of a stars brightness as seen on Earth
- 5. stars live out the majority of their lives in a phase called _____?
- 8. brightness of a star as it would be seen at a standard distance of 10 parsecs
- 10. the blue white hot core left behind
- 12. a unit of length equal to the distance of the earth from the sun
- 13. a old star whose diameter is about 100 times bigger than it originally was and had become cooler.
- 14. the type of spiral galaxy that the Milky Way is.
- 16. the galaxy that contains old stars
- 17. a gigantic cloud of gas and dust from which stars are made
- 18. The sun is a type of _____?
- 19. all matter an energy including the Earth an galaxies