Sun vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. an intense burst of radiation from a sun.
  2. 5. place in space where gravity pulls so strongly that even light cannot escape, acting as a one-way, invisible.
  3. 8. very young star in its earliest formation stage.
  4. 11. the colossal, violent explosion of a star at the end of its life.
  5. 12. unit of distance, not time, representing the total distance a beam of light travels in a vacuum in one Earth year.
  6. 13. the center of the sun.
  7. 14. middle layer of suns atmosphere.
  8. 16. a star that shines with yellow-white light.
Down
  1. 1. the outermost layer of the suns atmosphere.
  2. 2. this layer extends within 100 miles of the suns surface.
  3. 4. the dense, dead core remnant of a low-to-medium mass star.
  4. 6. Cloud of dust and gas.
  5. 7. most of the light that reaches the planets is realsed from here.
  6. 9. the suns thickest layer.
  7. 10. dark, cooler, planet-sized regions on the Sun's surface.
  8. 15. a large, luminous, and relatively cool dying star in the final stages of evolution.