Across
- 3. an intense burst of radiation from a sun.
- 5. place in space where gravity pulls so strongly that even light cannot escape, acting as a one-way, invisible.
- 8. very young star in its earliest formation stage.
- 11. the colossal, violent explosion of a star at the end of its life.
- 12. unit of distance, not time, representing the total distance a beam of light travels in a vacuum in one Earth year.
- 13. the center of the sun.
- 14. middle layer of suns atmosphere.
- 16. a star that shines with yellow-white light.
Down
- 1. the outermost layer of the suns atmosphere.
- 2. this layer extends within 100 miles of the suns surface.
- 4. the dense, dead core remnant of a low-to-medium mass star.
- 6. Cloud of dust and gas.
- 7. most of the light that reaches the planets is realsed from here.
- 9. the suns thickest layer.
- 10. dark, cooler, planet-sized regions on the Sun's surface.
- 15. a large, luminous, and relatively cool dying star in the final stages of evolution.
