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- 2. late stage in a star's life cycle that occurs when its Hydrogen fuel is depleted, its core contracts, and its outer Layers expand and cool.
- 5. giant star that has lost its outer layers, leaving behind a hot, dense core that continues to contract under gravity.
- 6. large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity most commonly can be elliptical, spiral and irregular.
- 7. device that disperses light into its component wavelenghts, using a prism or diffraction grating.
- 10. light-emitting surface of the sun.
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- 1. optical instrument that uses a concave mirror to collect light and a lens to magnify an image.
- 3. optical instrument that uses double convex lenses to collect light and magnify an image.
- 4. a spiral galaxy that is about 100,000 light-years in diameter and contains from 200 to 400 billion stars, including the sun.
- 8. telescope that collects and magnifies radio waves.
- 9. Star 0pattern that appears to form images, is usedby astronomers to locateand name stars, and often is named for mythological figures
