Across
- 3. Device that uses a prism or diffraction grating to separate light into its component wavelengths.
- 7. It uses a convex lens to collect light and form an image.
- 9. Astronomers use these constellations to locate and name stars.
- 10. Large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
Down
- 1. Collects amplifies radio waves.
- 2. Uses concave mirrors to gather light.
- 4. Giant star that has lost its outer layers, leaving behind a hot, dense core that continues to contract under gravity.
- 5. late stage in a star's life cycle when hydrogen fuel is depleted.
- 6. Light emits the surface of the sun.
- 8. a spiral galaxy that is about 100,000 light years in diameter.
