All About Space
Across
- 2. Space between the planets
- 7. Massive, exceptionally bright celestial object
- 8. relating to or resembling the stars
- 10. Path an object will follow in the absence of external forces.
- 14. A young stellar object
- 15. When one celestial body blocks light from reaching another
- 16. Rapidly spinning neutron star
- 19. Angular distance of a body north or south of the celestial equator
- 21. Material forced or thrown outward by impact of an asteroid or comet.
- 22. Point an orbit is farthest from the Sun
- 24. Bright meteor that explodes in the atmosphere
- 25. Change in a celestial object’s position
- 26. Objects made of frozen gases, rock and dust
- 27. The innermost and darkest part of a shadow
Down
- 1. Gaseous outermost part of a star's atmosphere
- 3. Glowing lights in the sky at the North and South Poles
- 4. Orbits a star outside the Earth’s solar system
- 5. Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun
- 6. when the sun is at either its highest or lowest point in the sky
- 9. A cavity in the ground of a celestial object
- 11. Space between the stars of a galaxy
- 12. A large spiral galaxy
- 13. bright patches on the Sun’s surface
- 17. Suddenly shines brightly for a few months
- 18. Annual path of the Sun
- 20. Where conditions are right to sustain life.
- 22. Point an orbit is farthest from the Earth
- 23. Huge explosions of electromagnetic radiation from the sun