Stars Crossword Puzzle

This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Astronomy & Space has 34 clues. Answers range from 4 to 23 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.

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Type of energy with the longest wavelength
Type of star that spins rapidly and gives off radiowaves and appears to blink visible light.
A massive group of gas, dust, and stars held together by gravitational attraction.
Type of energy that causes a sunburn.
A type of energy that can be seen by the human eye.
A telescope that uses one or more mirros to gather visible light from distant objects.
An abbreviation for the graph relating the temperature and brightness of stars.
A tiny dense star that remains after a Supernova explosion.
A unit of length equal to the distance from the Earth to the Sun.
A device used to detect radiowaves and microwaves.
A device attached to a telescope used to separate light into wavelengths according to size.
A telecope that uses convex lenses to gather and focus light.
An area on the H-R Diagram that runs at an angle from cool/dim stars to bright/hot stars.
A type of galaxy with no specific shape.
The end of the life for the largest supermassive stars.
A contracting cloud of spinning gas and dust.
Stage of a star when the outer layers of hot gases slowly float away from the core.
Star stage that fuses up through iron.
Distance between one crest of a wave and the next crest.
A spherical shaped galaxy made of little gas and dust and contains lot of older stars.
An increase in the wavelength of visible light that appears to occurs when an object is moving away from an observer.
A huge cloud (that may be the beginning of a star) is made of this.
The apparent change in the position of an object in space when viewed 6 months apart.
The tiny core left after the red giant stage that does not undergo fusion but glows because it is extremely hot.
The entire range of energy.
A massive explosion that occurs when the core of a sueprgiant collapses.
The force that is always trying to collapse a star.
The force that is trying to explode the star.
When a white dwarf loses it heat and no longer glows.
Star stage where carbon is created from helium.
Process that creates heavier elements from lighter ones.
Subatomic particle that is 'fused' together in the core of stars.
This characteristic determines that path a star takes to the end of its life.
Another term for high-energy particles traveling throughout space at the speed of light. When they collide with heavier elements, they 'chip' off a part of their nucleus creating lighter elements such as Lithium, Beryllium, and Boron.

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