Astronomy Cross Word Puzzle
Across
- 3. All of space and everything in it.
- 7. A model of the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- 8. The initial explosion that resulted in the formation and expansion of the universe.
- 9. The lowest possible temperature
- 13. A huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity.
- 14. Planets travel around the sun in what shape?
- 15. The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space.
- 18. An object in space revolving around a star.
- 19. The apparent change in position of an object when seen from different places.
- 20. An enormously bright, distant galaxy with a giant black hole at its center.
- 21. When the Moon is more than half full.
- 22. Way Our galaxy
- 23. The star that provides light for the Earth
Down
- 1. A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars.
- 2. Matter that does not give off electromagnetic radiation
- 4. The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion.
- 5. The observation that the farther away a galaxy is, the faster it is moving away.
- 6. One of the small asteroid-like bodies that formed the building blocks of the planets.
- 10. The movement of an object around another object.
- 11. When the moon’s shadow falls upon Earth.
- 12. The distance that light travels in one year
- 16. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis.
- 17. The force that pulls objects toward each other.
- 18. Change in the shape of the moon.
- 22. The most visible planet we see at night.