CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Across
3. Also known as the Seven Sisters
5. The most widely recognized astronomical
objects, and represent the most fundamental
building blocks of galaxies
6. A unit of astronomical distance equivalent to
the distance that light travels in one year
8. The star at the center of the Solar System.
9. A celestial object of very small radius and
very high density
10. A gravitationally bound system of stars,
stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and
dark matter.
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1. The galaxy that contains our Solar System.
2. Like celestial chemical factories, stars
spend their lives fusing hydrogen and helium
atoms to forge heavier elements
4. The gravitationally bound system
comprising the Sun and the objects that orbit
it, either directly or indirectly.
7. A dense cluster of massive young stars
about 100 light years from the Galactic Center
Its name comes from the fact it