Across
- 6. concept violated by instantaneous action-at-a-distance
- 10. layer of the sun from which light is emitted into space
- 12. type of particle including electron and muon
- 13. missions to the outer planets (1977-1989)
- 14. group of stars
- 15. used to determine chemical composition of stars
- 20. two words; imaginary hollow sphere around the earth
- 22. the name of our planet
- 23. two words; lowest limit of temperature
- 26. two words; thought to accelerate universe expansion
- 27. discovered first cepheid variable in 1923
- 29. aberration. disadvantage of refractors
- 30. a principle central to general relativity
- 31. a direct method for finding distance to a star
- 33. lets us calculate how fast an object is receding
- 34. smallest planet
Down
- 1. type of star cluster
- 2. Dutch inventor of the telescope
- 3. a moon of mars
- 4. another name for prominences
- 5. two words; venus has clouds of this
- 6. two words; constellation between bootes and hercules, asterism of seven stars
- 7. the arab astronomer al-Sufi revised this person's star catalogue
- 8. part of the sun’s atmosphere
- 9. red planet
- 11. splits light into a spectrum
- 16. the U in GUTs; string theory is one of these
- 17. Europa’s orbit can be described as this
- 18. two words; local cluster of galaxies containing the milky way
- 19. largest crater on the moon
- 21. proposed many-worlds interpretation
- 24. discovered moons of jupiter
- 25. phenomenon; wobble of earth’s axis
- 28. a book written by isaac newton
- 32. two words; type of star orbited by gliese 581c
