Stars Vocab

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Across
  1. 2. solar flares and coronal mass ejections that release high energy particles that slam into the Earth's magnetosphere
  2. 5. disk shape with a hot, condensed object at the center
  3. 7. neutron star that has a pulsating pattern of light
  4. 8. release of plasma and accompanying magnetic field from the sun's corona
  5. 9. cloud of interstellar gas and dust
  6. 10. thermal electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment, emitted by a black body
Down
  1. 1. the balance between gravity squeezing inward, and outward pressure
  2. 3. outer layers of a star that have been blown out in a massive explosion
  3. 4. dense, collapsed stellar remnant
  4. 6. star too massive to form a neutron star
  5. 9. a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness then slowly returning to its original state (smaller version of a supernova)