Astronomical Phenomena
Across
- 2. Ancient astronomers such as _____ were aware to the precession of the equinoxes.
- 3. ______ have been identifying patterns of the stars thousandsting constellations for thousand of years.
- 6. This is when planets move across the sky
- 7. Comet, with their distinctive _____
- 11. The position of stars and constellations shift due to Earth's precession. What is this?
- 13. They interpret the appearance of comets as what?
- 15. The invention that made astronomers explore the night sky more is called what?
- 17. It is the pattern of the stars
- 19. What is the event when the appearance of a new, exceptionally bright star in the night sky was noted by ancient astronomers.
- 20. It is when multiple meteors appear to radiate from a specific point in the sky
Down
- 1. The changing position of the sun causes what?
- 4. Constellations also served as ____ purposes
- 5. They often interpreted the appearance of these as omens
- 8. What is a exceptionally bright star?
- 9. Earth casting shadow on the moon is ____ eclipse
- 10. It is the faint, triangular glow of sunlight scattered by interplanetary dust along the solar system.
- 12. Astronomers relied on these observations to study the night sky before the telescopes were invented.
- 14. This is when either when moon passes the sun or the earth.
- 16. Whaeclipsees the sun during a lunar eclipse
- 18. Earth casting _____ on the moon on lunar eclipse