Stars Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 5. A small, dense star that remains after a red giant sheds its outer layers
  2. 7. The center of an atom
  3. 9. stars that are stably undergoing nuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium.
  4. 10. when a star explodes, at the end of its life, ejecting most of its mass into outer space
  5. 11. A dense core left behind after a supernova
Down
  1. 1. are baby stars
  2. 2. a cloud of dust and gas where stars are born
  3. 3. when a star explodes at the end of its life
  4. 4. A large, luminous star in the late stages of its life after exhausting hydrogen in its core
  5. 6. an area in space that has such a high gravitational pull that nothing, not even light, is able to escape
  6. 8. when two light nuclei fuse to form a heavier nucleus