Across
- 4. Project to create the first nuclear bombs; spooky ghost story ship involved
- 6. Discoverer of UV radiation.
- 10. The asteroid named after Neil-deGrasse Tyson.
- 12. chemical compound O3
- 15. The nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way.
- 16. The acronym for the world’s largest radio telescope.
- 18. Wavelengths shorter than visible light.
- 20. A physical field involving the effect of magnetism on objects.
- 21. A neutral particle and lepton that rarely interacts with normal matter.
- 22. the universe is probably one of these, planets are these, surface tension favors these. round.
- 24. An instrument in which the interference of two beams of light is employed to make precise measurements.
- 27. Apply quantum theory to, in particular, restrict the number of possible values of a quantity or states of a system so that certain variables can assume only certain discrete ones.
- 28. Particles smaller than atoms.
- 29. The explosion of a giant star.
- 30. Two stars, caught in each other’s orbit. One day, perhaps, one will destroy the other in their collision.
- 32. The star system the closest exoplanet is in.
- 33. These carry light.
- 34. Wavelengths longer than visible light.
- 35. The name of the asteroid belt that Pluto is in, and the remains from our star system forming.
- 36. Pluto’s moon that it is tide locked by and has tide locked.
- 37. Inventor of the first radio telescope.
- 38. The time before 10-43 seconds after the big bang.
- 40. The phenomenon caused by high energy particles being deflected by magnetic fields and drawn to the North and South Poles.
Down
- 1. These gravitational fields are used for launching probes further out into space.
- 2. The planet that deters most of the large asteroids that would hit earth.
- 3. Up and Down, Charmed and strange.
- 5. One of Jupiter’s moons; it is tidally locked on Jupiter.
- 7. The range of electromagnetic radiation.
- 8. Neutron stars with pulses of radiation, like a lighthouse beam.
- 9. A machine that the movement of never stops, which isn’t possible under gravitational forces.
- 11. The study of the relations between heat, work, temperature, and energy.
- 13. Currently the largest particle collider.
- 14. The kind of telescope, aside from X-ray telescopes, used to observe emissions from black holes and supermassive black holes.
- 17. The plural form of the word meaning an image or distribution of components of sound, particles, etc., arranged according to such characteristics as frequency, charge, and energy.
- 19. Ten radio telescopes in New mexico. How long.
- 23. I hate the concept of this. Matter that doesn’t have an observable effect aside from gravity irritates me. I hate it.
- 25. The bright, distant cores of galaxies.
- 26. a fairly light element, destroyed by all known nuclear reactions.
- 31. The first name of the king that Sir William Herschel tried to name Uranus after
- 39. The eleventh letter of the Greek alphabet.