Deep Sky Objects

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Across
  1. 2. After being born in a starbirth nebula, stars spend their early years in ____ clusters.
  2. 5. The Milky Way is this type of galaxy, due to it's shape.
  3. 6. Our star will become one of these, in about 5 billion years.
  4. 10. These objects contain some of the oldest stars known to astronomers.
  5. 12. Calcium in your bones and teeth, and iron in your blood is made in the core of ______.
  6. 16. The Whirlpool galaxy can be found just below this constellation, who used the be the woman Callisto.
  7. 19. The orion nebula is an example of a _________ nebula.
Down
  1. 1. When a star the size of Betelgeuse dies, a ________ remnant, like the Crab Nebula is left over.
  2. 3. I am considered the Milky Way's sister galaxy.
  3. 4. At the center of a planetary nebula lies a ______ dwarf, the core of the former star.
  4. 7. At the core of every star ________ fusion takes place to generate energy.
  5. 8. When a star the size of our sun dies, it leaves behind a _________ nebula.
  6. 9. When Betelgeuse dies, this very exotic object could be left behind.
  7. 11. This beautifully coloured object can be seen with the Plaskett Telescope and is a planetary nebula.
  8. 13. I come in all different shapes and sizes, including elliptical.
  9. 14. The globular cluster M13 can be found in this sneaky man, who managed to get the golden apple.
  10. 15. Red stars are generally _______ in temperature than blue stars.
  11. 17. Charles _______ catalogued hundreds of deep sky objects.
  12. 18. Spilt milk?
  13. 20. This star makes up the foot of Orion the Hunter, and gives Astronomers an idea of what Betelgeuse might have looked like back in the day.