Universe Vocab-Genifer Gomez-6th
Across
- 4. Celestial body which the Earth and other planets revolve around
- 5. waves between radio waves and infrared waves
- 7. Death of a large star by explosion
- 8. Large Cloud of gas and dust in interstellar space
- 9. Rotational center of a huge galaxy such as the Milky Way
- 13. Celestial body of a mass of gas held together by it's own gravity
- 14. Bands of dust that appear as dark ribbons against the bright stars in a galaxy
- 16. waves with very high energy and no charge or mass
- 17. provide uswith visible light spectrum
- 18. change in wavelength that allows us to determine if an object is moving towars us or away
Down
- 1. unit of length equal to the distance that light travels through space in 1 year
- 2. all space and the matter space contains
- 3. waves with longer wavelengths than visible light
- 6. distance between any two corresponding points that are adjacent on a wave
- 7. Standard unit in astronomy used to compare the size of other stars with the sun
- 10. waves with long wavelengths and low frequencies
- 11. A large grouping of stars in space
- 12. Transfer of energy through matter or space as electromagnetic waves
- 15. All space and the matter space contains