Across
- 2. Rapidly spinning neutron stars
- 6. She was the lead developer of the imaging software used to analyze a black hole
- 10. This element emits light mostly in the red spectrum
- 11. The region around a black hole where the escape velocity is equal to that of the speed of light
- 14. The "North Star" which is a visible binary
- 15. This nebula looks like a chess piece and shows the dust particles being consumed and pushed away
- 16. Low mass stars cannot perform fusion with this element
- 17. The latin word for "cloud"
- 18. The process by which your body is stretched as you fall into a black hole
Down
- 1. The young astronomer who coined the term Brown Dwarf
- 3. This element tends to glow green, with just a hint of blue
- 4. Formed from the deaths of main sequence stars
- 5. The most powerful magnets in the entire universe
- 6. A nebula about a half lightyear across that shows drastic scattering of light
- 7. What remains after a main sequence star dies and sheds its outer layers
- 8. The Pillars of ____ is a nebula that is showing signs of stars being formed at the tips of each pillar
- 9. These objects are the remnants of star creation when a star wasn't able to be formed fully
- 12. The material inside a neutron star that is so dense a teaspoon would weigh 400,000,000 tons
- 13. What happens when particularly massive stars die
- 18. Small shifts in the surface of a star that release immense energy