The Universe
Across
- 4. so dense that light cannot escape gravity
- 5. our galaxy
- 8. all the galaxies,star systems, gas and dust
- 10. group of stars
- 12. a large red colored star that is collapsing inward on itself
- 14. galaxy that appears as a rotating disk of gas and dust
- 17. hypothetical form of energy
- 19. egg shaped rotating galaxy
- 23. gravitational collapse shrinks the stars core to a white glowing sphere
- 25. nuclear fusion in star's core produces helium from hydrogen
- 26. arms that spiral outwards off of a spiralgalaxy
- 27. group of a few to a thousand stars loosely held together by gravity
- 28. violent explosion that occurs when a stars core succumbs to gravity
Down
- 1. study of the universe
- 2. two stars orbiting eachother
- 3. theory of how the universe formed
- 6. galxy that contains few million to a billion stars
- 7. the shift of the absorption bands toward the red end of the spectrum
- 9. ball of glowing gas at a very high temperature
- 11. form of matter that we cannot se but know it exists
- 13. nuclei of two atoms combine to form a new atom
- 15. tens of thousands of stars held tightly together by gravity
- 16. group of hundreds of thousands of stars
- 17. change in frequency of a wave
- 18. stars that are grouped closely together
- 20. biggest group of stars
- 21. the leftover material in the core after a supernova explosion
- 22. galaxy that isn't spiral or elliptical
- 24. unit of measurement for stars that are relatively close to Earth