Unit 1 Space Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. Clouds of dust and gas found in space.
  2. 9. A gravitationally dense region of space-time where nothing can escape, not even light.
  3. 12. The collection of all the matter, space, and energy that exists, also known as the cosmos.
  4. 13. An older star with a cooler outer layer.
  5. 14. A cool, small star on the main sequence.
  6. 15. A body held together by gravity that is made of millions of stars, gas, and dust.
  7. 16. The twelve constellations through which the sun, moon, and planets appear to move.
  8. 17. A large, hot star off the main sequence.
Down
  1. 1. The tightly-packed collapsed core of a larger star.
  2. 2. A device used to project images of the stars or depict the solar system.
  3. 3. A star plotted in the left-to-right band across the HR diagram.
  4. 4. The largest structure in the universe, composed of many galaxy clusters.
  5. 6. A group of galaxies that are found close together.
  6. 7. A stellar core remnant of a low to medium mass star.
  7. 8. hole Formed by a collapsed star, has a very strong gravitational pull.
  8. 10. The pattern that a group of stars seems to make in the sky.
  9. 11. A massive, hot, shining ball of gas.