universe vocabulary
Across
- 2. galaxys that are not spiral or elliptical
- 5. groups of a thousand stars that are loosley held together by gravity
- 7. two stars orbiting each other
- 9. the left over material in the core after the super nova explosion
- 10. all of the stars galaxys gas and dust
- 12. a large red colored star that is calapsing inward
- 13. a violent explosion that occurs when a stars core succumbs
- 14. nuclie of two atoms combined to form a new atom
- 15. tens of thousands of stars that are held togehter by gravity
- 17. ball of blowing gas
- 21. matter we cant see but know exists
- 22. this is so dense that even light can escape the gravity
- 23. a galaxy that only contains a few million stars
- 25. arms that spiral outward off spiral galaxys
- 28. appears as a rotating disk of stars and dust
- 29. most widely accepted cosmological explanation of how the universe is formed
Down
- 1. gravitational collapses shrinks the stars core to a white glowing core
- 3. the shift of absortion bans tworads the red end of a spectrum
- 4. method of measurment for stars that are close to earth
- 6. nuculear fusion in a stars core produces helium from hydrogen
- 8. change in frequency of a wave relative to an observer moving in relationship to the source of a wave
- 11. stars that are grouped closely together
- 16. groups of hundreds or thousands of stars
- 18. egg shaped rotating galaxy
- 19. hypothetical form of energy, may make up as much as 71 percent of the energy in the universe
- 20. the study of the universe
- 24. a group of stars
- 26. our galaxy
- 27. biggest group of stars