STARS AND CONSTELLATIONS
Across
- 2. – latin for “keel” which means boat’s bottom and the 34th largest constellation
- 3. Dipper – has seven stars, four for the trapezoid body and three for the handle.
- 6. – english name of crow constellation.
- 7. Centauri – closest star to earth next to our sun
- 8. – medium-sized star
- 12. – located at the tail of the Cygnus
- 13. – Constellations that can be seen all year round
- 16. Minor – the little bear and smaller version of Ursa Major
- 17. Navis – It is a larger boat shaped constellation and was created by greek philosopher Ptolemy.
- 20. – a pseudoscience that determines the influence of the state of the stars and the planets at the time of one’s birth on an individual’s destiny.
- 22. - A group of stars that form patterns but are actually part of one or multiple constellations,
- 23. science that uses principles of physics and mathematics to explain and predict the phenomenon of celestial body.
- 24. Major – known as the big bear, the third largest known constellation and is easy to see.
- 25. – the color of the hottest stars
- 26. – country that lies near the equator
- 30. Astronomical Union – officially recognized 88 constellations
- 31. – describes the rate at which a stars radiates energy.
- 32. - a constellation in the northern sky, named after the winged horse Pegasus in Greek mythology
- 33. Halley – british astronomer who discovered that stars move, change positions but because they are far away their movement through space is not that significantly observed.
- 35. window to the future
Down
- 1. dwarf - small stars (smaller than the distance across Asia).
- 2. – latin name for swan, is the 16th largest constellation and recognized for its asterism that forms a cross and is referred to the northern cross
- 4. – a constellation that cannot be seen in the northern hemisphere
- 5. – Latin name for cross
- 6. – a constellation named after a wueen in Greek mythology, is the 25th largest constellation
- 9. – It refers to half-man, half-horse creature in greek mythology
- 10. temperatures – indicator of a star’s color
- 11. – illusion created by the moving air in the atmosphere that bends this light
- 13. - a group of stars which form a pattern in the night sky.
- 14. It is the second brightest star
- 15. star – actually the planet Venus
- 18. – massive ball of glowing hydrogen and helium of extremely high temperatures, held together by its own gravity.
- 19. they do not employ scientific methods
- 21. stars – twice to 10 times larger than our sun
- 23. – located at the head of Cygnus
- 27. – located at the tip of Ursa Minor
- 28. Fusion – occurs on the sun where hydrogen fuses to form helium, releasing energy
- 29. star – actually a meteor in transit
- 32. - a Greco-Egyptian writer of Alexandria, known as a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology
- 34. red – coolest star