Astronomy

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Across
  1. 5. A constellation that can be used to locate the direction south in the night sky.
  2. 10. The final stage of an extremely massive star's life cycle.
  3. 11. The brightness of a star as it appears from Earth.
  4. 15. The unit to measure distance in space.
  5. 16. The final stage of a fairly massive star's life cycle.
  6. 18. A medium sized star that is the centre of our solar system.
Down
  1. 1. The imaginary central point in the night sky that the stars appear to be rotating around.
  2. 2. A cluster of stars that form a pattern in the sky.
  3. 3. The imaginary line that the sun, moon, planets and twelve constellations pass through.
  4. 4. The actual brightness of a star.
  5. 6. The main gas that stars are composed of.
  6. 7. The theory that proposes the universe has always existed.
  7. 8. A massive star that is cooling and expanding as it begins to run out of gas.
  8. 9. A huge cloud of gas and dust that forms a star.
  9. 10. The theory that proposes that the universe is expanding.
  10. 12. The longest stage of a star's life cycle.
  11. 13. When our Sun eventually runs out of gas it will shrink and form this type of star.
  12. 14. When nuclear fusion occurs on a star hydrogen is converted into this gas.
  13. 17. An explosion after a massive star begins to run out of gas.