The Milky Way Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- galaxies : immense star systems held together by mutual gravity of its member stars
- reflection : nebula that contains dust which scatters light enough to become visible
- core : the section of our galaxy may contain a black hole
- dark : nebula that has dust clouds blocking out light of other stars
- open : clusters that only have a few hundred stars and are loosely clumped together
- barred spiral : galaxy with arms winding out of bars
- emission : nebula that contains interstellar gas near young stars that glows
- milky way : band of light made up of millions of stars that we see in the night sky
- globular : densely clumped cluster that has the oldest stars
- spiral : disk with arms winding from the center
- population ii : older stars that occur in halos of a galaxy and move along elongated orbits
- elliptical : galaxy with no arms and smooth distribution of stars
- irregular : galaxy with no obvious structure
- population i : you stars that tend to have circular orbits
- charles messier : accidentally discovered the first galaxies
