Across
- 3. The Milky Way is around 105 700 _____ ______ in diameter
- 4. One of the 3 categories of galaxies and is characterized by its “pinwheel” shape with arms circling a center core
- 6. The largest planet in our solar system; it possesses a “spot” that has been visible from Earth for over 300 years and is actually a storm in the planets atmosphere
- 10. The stage of an intermediate star’s life where the core contracts and outer layer expands due to all the hydrogen in the star being consumed from fusion
- 11. A cloud of small icy pieces of debris located between 50 000AU and 100 000AU from the Sun. Many comets comes from this formation as well as the Kuiper Belt
- 13. The unit of measurement for measuring distance in the solar system
- 14. The stage of a red dwarf’s life where it no longer produces its own energy, but is incredibly hot
Down
- 1. There are 3 ways of classifying these objects: stony, iron, and stony-iron
- 2. The event that scientists theorized happened 14 billion years ago, which started the expansion of the universe
- 5. A natural occurrence that happens in the southern hemisphere and involves clouds of gas ejected from the Sun crashing into Earth’s magnetic field
- 7. One of the gas giants in our solar system; its peculiar blue-green colour comes from the methane gas in its atmosphere.
- 8. The last stage (aka the death stage) of a star thats solar mass was above 25, caused by after its center implodes and a supernova is produced
- 9. The first known “hot Jupiter” planet, a type of gas giant that orbits extremely close to its star, to be discovered outside the solar system
- 12. The specific section of the moon’s shadow where, if you’re inside it, allows you to see a total solar eclipse