Across
- 1. group of single stars, star systems,star clusters,dust, and gas bound together by gravity
- 8. a stars brightness as seen from earth
- 9. the first stage of a star's formation
- 10. The blue-white core that is left behind cools and becomes this
- 11. all of space and everything in it
Down
- 2. brightness of the star would have if it were a standard distance from earth
- 3. the distance that light travels in one year
- 4. his discoveries helped later scientists to ______ a more accurate scale of the entire solar system
- 5. when a star explodes
- 6. a large cloud of gas and dust containing an immense volume of material
- 7. large telescopes have spectographs to ______ light
