The Big Bang Theory Vocabulary
Across
- 2. the simplest and lightest chemical element
- 4. the scientific study of celestial objects
- 5. an american astronomer who revolutionized cosmology by proving that nebulae were independent galaxies
- 10. an american radio astronomer who, with arno penzias, discovered the cosmic microwave background CMB radiation
- 13. glow of electromagnetic radiation filling all space
- 16. gravitationally bound system consisting of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter
- 17. a colorless, odorless, tasteless, and inert noble gas
- 18. a german physicist who developed the theory of relativity
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- 1. an american physicist and radio astronomer who co-discovered the cosmic microwave background CMB radiation
- 3. a british mathematician and astronomer
- 6. the entire range of all types of electromagnetic radiation
- 7. the totality of all space, time, matter, and energy in existence
- 8. the portion of the electromagnetic spectrum—ranging from approximately to nanometers
- 9. model explaining that the universe began approximately 13.8 billion years ago from an extremely hot, dense singularity
- 11. an instrument that separates radiation
- 12. the ability to do work
- 14. light or other electromagnetic radiation from an object is stretched
- 15. the decrease in wavelength