Astronomy
Across
- 2. in which they are located.
- 4. Most are rocky bodies that orbit in a region in the solar system known as the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
- 9. occurs when an object in space passes directly between two other objects or between the object and the viewer.
- 11. Most are rocky bodies covered with craters, but some have unique characteristics.
- 12. made up of gas, dust, and billions of stars and have different shapes.
Down
- 1. the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, also emits light but is only visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse.
- 3. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or
- 5. appear as dark spots on the photosphere. They are actually moving areas
- 6. magnetic activity with temperatures that are cooler than the area of the
- 7. chunks of rock that burn upon entering a planet’s atmosphere.
- 8. The galaxy in which you live.
- 10. The effects of the solar winds result in the tail always points away from the
- 11. Usually elliptical and dependent of the mass of the object it is