Unit 3 vocabulary By: Miriam Fragano
Across
- 3. The brightness of a star seen from earth
- 7. A measure of how bright is star would be if there were seen from the standard distance
- 8. A small hot dim star that is left over from the center of an old sun like star
- 9. Space and all the matter and energy in it
- 10. The distance that light travels in a year
- 12. A star that has collapsed under gravity to the point that the electrons and protons have smashed together to form neutrons
Down
- 1. all of the frequencies or wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
- 2. A gigantic explosion in which a massive star collapses and throws it outer layer into space
- 4. a large cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space
- 5. The actual brightness of an object such as a star
- 6. Russell diagram a graph that shows the relationship between a stars surface temperature and absolute magnitude
- 11. a collection of stars dust and gas bound together by gravity