yadiel's puzzle
Across
- 3. The linear relation between the distance to a galaxy
- 4. Long, spiral pattern of bright stars, star clusters, gas, and dust
- 7. spheroidal cloud of stars at the center of most spiral galaxies
- 8. Nonluminous material that is detected only by its gravitational influence.
- 9. All material confined to the plane of the galaxy.
- 12. An irregularly shaped cluster that contains fewer than 1000 galaxiesLocal Group
- 13. A cluster containing more than 1000 galaxies
- 14. Object of known brightness that astronomers use to find distance
- 15. The effect of the focusing of light from a distant galaxy
Down
- 1. A region of the galaxy’s disk in which gas heated by supernova explosions
- 2. part of the galaxy including all matter in a spherical distribution around the center
- 5. A unit of distance equal to 1 million pc.
- 6. spiral galaxy containing a thin scattering of stars
- 8. The combined calibration of distance indicators used by astronomers
- 10. A cloud of gas collapsing gravitationally to become a galaxy.
- 11. The cluster of about 40 nearby galaxies