Structure of the Universe
Across
- 3. Force which pulls based on mass and distance
- 7. Random small pieces of rock
- 8. Elliptical, spiral, or irregular
- 9. Where gravity is so strong not even light can escape
- 13. imaginary lines between stars for navigation
- 14. A large object revolving around the sun in the sun's orbital plane.
- 15. Angle from the central axis for revolution (usually close to perpendicular)
- 17. To spin around an axis
- 18. Irregular shape and rotating on more than one axis
- 19. The distance a photon of light can travel in one Earth year
- 22. Used for looking at stars
- 23. Frozen space object with a tail.
Down
- 1. Theoretical tunnel connections between distances in space
- 2. Imaginary line for rotation
- 4. Smaller objects orbiting the sun but NOT in the orbital plane
- 5. Where stars and galaxies are born
- 6. Theory of how the universe began
- 8. Earth is the center of everything
- 10. To go around another object
- 11. Nuclear ball of gas
- 12. A force which attracts or repels
- 16. All known matter and energy
- 20. Sun is at the center
- 21. Rocky object orbiting a planet