The Universe
Across
- 1. the stable period were the star spend 90% of its life
- 3. The collection of planets and their moons in orbit around the sun, located on the Orion Arm of the Milky Way
- 4. a collection of stars and gas held together by gravity
- 6. has a spiral shape with arms
- 8. A key factor in gravity; the force of gravity decreases as the distance between objects increases
- 10. A scatterplot chart used to classify stars by graphing their luminosity against their temperature
- 13. A unit of measurement representing the distance a star's light travels in one year
- 15. an explosions of a high mass star after they explode
- 18. a unstable stage were the star pulls gas together before fusion begins
- 19. shaped like a oval or football
- 20. One of the two primary factors (along with distance) that determines the gravitational attraction between two objects
Down
- 2. A star characteristic determined by its color; blue stars are the hottest, while red stars are the coolest
- 5. The shed outer layers of a low-mass star as it transitions into a white dwarf
- 7. galaxies with no definite shape
- 9. the most massive stars after they explode
- 11. after main sequence where the star starts to lose fuel
- 12. where atoms smash together to release energy
- 14. The total amount of energy a star gives off from its surface
- 16. after mains sequence only high mass stars got through this
- 17. a hot, dim star that the a low mass star goes through after its outer layers are gone