Across
- 2. solar flares and coronal mass ejections that release high energy particles that slam into the Earth's magnetosphere
- 5. disk shape with a hot, condensed object at the center
- 7. neutron star that has a pulsating pattern of light
- 8. release of plasma and accompanying magnetic field from the sun's corona
- 9. cloud of interstellar gas and dust
- 10. thermal electromagnetic radiation within or surrounding a body in thermodynamic equilibrium with its environment, emitted by a black body
Down
- 1. the balance between gravity squeezing inward, and outward pressure
- 3. outer layers of a star that have been blown out in a massive explosion
- 4. dense, collapsed stellar remnant
- 6. star too massive to form a neutron star
- 9. a star showing a sudden large increase in brightness then slowly returning to its original state (smaller version of a supernova)