Astronomy
Across
- 2. Nodding motion of the earth's precession that causes the seasons
- 4. A collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems
- 8. The slow & continuous pointing of Earth's axis in different directions over a 26,000 year cycle
- 10. An object's orbital motion around another object
- 11. When the wavelength of something is stretched so it appears stretched toward the red end of the spectrum
Down
- 1. The reaction in which two atoms of hydrogen fuse to form a helium nucleus - This process powers the Sun!
- 2. A cloud of dust and gas between stars that has new stars
- 3. The center of mass between two orbiting objects where all the mass and gravity are equally distributed
- 5. An object's spinning motion about its own axis
- 6. The process of two smaller atoms forming from a collision
- 7. All of space, matter, and energy
- 9. The elliptical orbit that a planet travels in