Across
- 3. Cassiopeia, was a vain and boastful wife of king cepheus of ethiopia.
- 6. magnitude, astronomers describe the actual brightness of a star.
- 8. Parsec, the standard unit of distance
- 12. Draco, is always visible in the northern hemisphere but not in the southern Hemisphere.
- 13. Star sign, one of the 12 zodiac signs that the sun is in on the birth date.
- 14. patterns of stars seen in the sky.
- 16. Ursa Major, also known as the big bear.
- 17. constellations, constellations that move counterclockwise directions.
- 18. the difference in two solar calendars is caused by an astronomical precession.
- 21. Rigel, a young blue white star and one of the most luminous of all stars.
Down
- 1. is the measuremnt of stars
- 2. Giant Stars, those with a mass of more than 10 times higher than that of our sun.
- 4. is the power of a star
- 5. are created when materials in the disk around a preexisting star begins to condense around a rock.
- 7. Shift, stars seem to shift their positions against the farther stars.
- 9. one of the prominent star patterns in the sky. Known as the 'Hunter'.
- 10. plane, is the imaginary line traced by the sun in the sky.
- 11. Axis, apparent motion occurs due ro the rotation of the earth.
- 12. stars patterns that have been discovered but not been officially identified as a constellation.
- 13. Hercules, a constellation named after the greek hero Herakles.
- 14. body, an opaque object that emits thermal radiation.
- 15. Polaris, displays very little movement in the sky.
- 17. Betelgeuse, a red star that doesnt shine wity a steady light as it expands.
- 19. formed when a gas cloud out in the nebula or other region of interstellar space.
- 20. Equatorial constellations, lie on the other side of the celestial equator.