Stars and Astronomers Timeline
Across
- 3. Collected data on thousands of stars and the planets. Had a golden nose.
- 7. Explained how gravity worked.
- 10. A star that keeps fusing elements up to iron.
- 11. An star that has NOT started fusion, but is heating up and being gathered by gravity.
- 13. Combining elements inside a star to create new elements and create energy.
- 15. The explosion of a massive star when its layers collapse.
- 16. A cloud of hydrogen gas and dust in space.
- 17. Wrote 3 laws on how planets move.
- 18. The pulling force that attracts all objects in the Universe.
- 19. First person to use a telescope for studying space.
- 20. The study of the universe and everything in it.
- 21. When a white dwarf star shines and lights up the leftover layers from a red giant star.
Down
- 1. Discovered that other galaxies exist.
- 2. An object so dense that not even light can escape its gravity.
- 4. The idea that the Sun is the center of the Universe.
- 5. The elements of chemicals that make up something.
- 6. A star that has run out of helium, has expanded, and now fuses helium.
- 8. A crushed core of a small star that is made of carbon and electrons.
- 9. The first person to claim the Sun was the center of everything.
- 12. The incorrect idea that the Earth is the center of the Universe.
- 14. Adult stars that are converting hydrogen into helium through the process of fusion.
- 16. A crushed core of a massive star that is made of mostly neutrons.