Across
- 2. Scientist who discovered the conservation of mass-energy.
- 6. The type of force that takes over the electric force in a star to fuse atoms together and form heavier atoms.
- 7. The process in which small atoms under tremendous temperature form larger atoms.
- 9. Color emitted by the coolest stars.
- 10. The mathematical relationship between color and temperature of a star.
- 12. Radius of a black hole in which nothing can escape it unless you are traveling faster than the speed of light.
- 15. Color emitted by the hottest stars.
- 17. Something with a large amount of mass with zero volume and infinite density. Hint: We just got a picture of this for the first time.
- 18. As a nebula squeezes into an even more tightly compressed cloud, it will eventually form a _______.
Down
- 1. A ball of neutrons about 25 km in diameter created when a star dies.
- 3. A cloud of gas and dust in which stars are formed from.
- 4. Types of classification system in which classes are signified by Roman Numerals.
- 5. Important graph used to look at patterns of stars using their temperature and luminosity.
- 8. Law that states that the energy of a star is proportional to temperature raised to the fourth power.
- 11. Most stars on the HR Diagram are classified as this.
- 12. Point of the black hole identified as the unknowable center.
- 13. The process of star formation begins when a shock wave hits a nebula from a nearby _______ explosion.
- 14. This person led a group of women to classify stars by the strength of their hydrogen lines.
- 16. Neutron stars are known to emit a beam of light rotating like a light house. This rotating beam of light is also known as a ______.
