Stars and Constellations
Across
- 2. / An object so dense, nothing can escape its gravity field
- 4. / They lie on the either side of the celestial equator
- 5. / The amount of light received on Earth
- 8. / Belief in the positions of celestial body influence the people's personalities and shape their lives
- 9. / the apparent shift in the position of an object when viewed from two different positions.
- 10. / Indicates the temperature of a star
- 12. / distance that the light travels in one year
- 13. / a triangle shaped glass called a prism used to produce a spectrum.
- 14. / Scientific study of the objects in the universe
- 16. / patterns of stars in the sky
- 17. / American astronomer who constructed the H-R Diagram
- 19. / Danish astronomer who constructed the H-R Diagram
- 20. / Stars which explode violently
- 21. / Where the star began as a large cloud of gas and dust
- 23. / a diagram that relates the brightness of stars to its surface temperature
- 24. / The brightest star and nearest star on Earth
Down
- 1. / measure of the amount of light it actually gives off
- 3. / constellations that move in a counterclockwise direction
- 5. / Star patterns that have been discovered but have not been officially identified as constellation
- 6. / Color of the coldest star
- 7. / A hot luminous celestial body.
- 11. / A spiral galaxy where the solar system belongs
- 15. / "Circle of animals in Greek"
- 18. / located on the lower left of the HR diagram which are hot but not very bright stars
- 22. / Famous constellation known as "The Hunter"