Stars

2. The star closest to Earth
3. God told this person his descendants would be like the stars
5. A star's life cycle is based on its ____
6. A star nursery
7. the force that holds stars together
9. the stage after the main sequence for a small to medium mass star; fuel begins to run out
10. this person had a dream where the sun, moon, and 11 stars bowed to him
12. The second stage of the life cycle; where nuclear fusion begins
15. the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere
18. Where 90% of the star's life cycle is spent
20. a gravitational field so strong that not even light can escape; the end for extremely large mass stars
23. the extremely dense remains of a dead star
24. the part of the sun that we see from Earth
25. an extremely bright explosion of a star

1. the process that allows stars to give off light and heat; happens in the core
4. a dead star that no longer gives off light or heat
8. All stars go through the same first ___ stages
11. what stars are mostly made of
13. this appeared in the sky when Jesus was born
14. a star that has exhausted all of its nuclear fuel
16. the stage after the main sequence for a large mass stars
17. A huge burning sphere of gas held together by a force
19. the sun, moon, and stars were created on day ___
21. the fifth stage of life for a low-mass star
22. where nuclear fusion takes place