Astronomy
Across
- 4. chunks of rock that burn up when entering a planets atmosphere
- 5. moon rotates on its axis and revolves around the Earth
- 6. the rise and fall of the surface levels of Earth's ocean water
- 10. the spinning of a planet on its side
- 13. bright-arch loops that may erupt from the photosphere into the corona
- 14. occurs when an object in space passthe directly between 2 other objects
- 17. contains of ice, methane, ammonia, and dust
- 20. occur near sunspots and are sudden
- 21. when the sun and moon are aligned
- 22. when the sun and moon are at right angles
- 24. tool usedto collect light from distant stars
- 25. contains instruments to collect data and travel out of Earth's orbit
- 27. the movement of an object in a circular motion
- 28. the outer most layer of the suns atmosphere
- 29. come from the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter
Down
- 1. tool that uses conex lenses to bend and focus light rays
- 2. appear as dark spots on the photosphere
- 3. made up of planets, moons, asteroids, comets, dust, and gas
- 7. made up of gas, dust, and billions of stars
- 8. occurs when he moon passes between the sun and earth
- 9. terrestrial or rocky surface sometime gaseous
- 11. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon
- 12. tool that uses mirrors to focus light rays
- 15. occurs when Earth passes between the sun and moon
- 16. the visible surface of the sun that emits the light we see
- 18. rocky bodies covered with craters
- 19. tool that recieves radio waves emitted from objects in space
- 20. a star in the Milky Way galaxy in the spiral arm
- 23. changes in the moons position as it reolves around Earth
- 26. the galaxy we live in