Stars
Across
- 4. lowest layer of the Sun's atmosphere that is also its visible surface
- 6. arrangement of visible light ordered according to wavelength
- 7. wind of charged particles that begins as gas flowing outward from the Sun's corona at high speeds
- 9. apparent positional shift of an object caused by the motion of the observer
- 11. brightness of an object would have if it were placed at a distance of 10 pc
- 13. a faint cloudy spot on the cornea. Also a star factory
- 14. a gaseous layer of the sun's atmosphere
- 17. violent eruption of radiation and particles from the Sun's surface
- 18. dark spot on the surface of the photosphere
Down
- 1. arc of gas ejected from the chromosphere
- 2. a star that explodes
- 3. An instrument that separates light into a spectrum
- 5. how bright a star will be in relation to the sun
- 8. a region of the sun where gases circulate in convection currents
- 10. Star a star that has collapsed under its own gravity
- 11. classification system based on how bright a star appears to be
- 12. an atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles
- 14. the outermost region of the sun's atmosphere
- 15. process in a star's core in which lightweight hydrogen nuclei combine into heavier helium nuclei
- 16. Hole a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star