Light & Stars Crossword Puzzle

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QUESTIONS LIST: electromagnetic: this spectrum is made of different wavelengths of light, emission: this spectrum is produced when gasses are heated & excited, thereby producing light, continuous: this spectrum is emitted by hot objects, absorption: this spectrum is produced when gasses in an atmosphere or nebula block light from traveling to our eyes, concave: a lens that curves inward & diverges rays of light, convex: a lens that curves outward & converges rays of light, telescope: an instrument first used by galileo to magnify objects in space, isaac newton: the inventor of the reflecting telescope, refraction: the bending of light, wavelength: the distance from the crest of one wave of light to the next, atmosphere: we put telescopes in space because this interferes with the images of ground-based telescopes, nanometers: the unit that we use to measure wavelengths of light; 1 billionth of a meter, green: the color of light that the sun emits at its peak power density, inverse: the relationship between a star’s color & temperature when graphed, blueshift: the tendency of light to become compressed as an object moves towards the observer, redshift: the tendency of light to be “stretched out” as an object moves away from an observer, divergent: the path of light as it travels through a concave lens, convergent: the path of light as it travels through a convex lens, nebula: a cloud of gas & dust; a stellar nursery, fusion: the process by which atoms are forced together, producing energy, deuterium: fuses in a protostar; also known as ‘heavy hydrogen’