Key Terms

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Across
  1. 5. The center of a galaxy
  2. 7. The relation between apparent velocity recession and distance
  3. 9. A chaotic mix of gas, dust, and stars with no obvious shape
  4. 10. A model that captures the image a galaxy's core
  5. 12. Round, contain no visible gas, dust or bright stars
  6. 13. Objects used to map spiral arms
  7. 14. Using such a graph to find the mass of the galaxy
  8. 15. When you look at a distant galaxy, you look back into the past by an amount
Down
  1. 1. An obvious disk and nuclear bulge but little to no visible gas and dust
  2. 2. Objects that find that distance to a galaxy
  3. 3. Huge clouds of dust or distant radio galaxies
  4. 4. A disk and spiral arms
  5. 6. Roughly two-thirds of all spiral galaxies
  6. 8. The slope of the line
  7. 11. The unit that astronomers use