Across
- 1. the death explosion of a massive star
- 4. a star that’s between a giant planet and a small star in size
- 9. a star near the end of its life when most of its fuel has been used up
- 10. an object is moving towards the observer
- 12. a space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape
- 16. a very young star that is still forming
- 17. the theory that suggests that the universe was formed in a single point in space 18 billion years ago
- 19. a huge system containing billions of start, gas, and dust
- 20. a star who’s fuel begins to exhaust and expands to about fifty times its normal size
- 21. the process by which dense regions of gas and dust collapse to form a star
Down
- 2. a cloud of dust and gas in space
- 3. an icy object that forms a glowing tail when it approaches the Sun
- 5. happens when an object is moving away
- 6. a large object that orbits a star and does not produce its own light
- 7. a small and relatively cool star
- 8. a very small, white star that is the remnant core of a star that has completed fusion in its core
- 11. the distance light can travel in a year
- 13. a small rocky object orbiting the Sun
- 14. a massive ball of hot gas that produces nuclear fusion
- 15. the largest and most luminous types of stars
- 18. the forse that pulls gas and dust together to start the formation of a star
