Astronomy Crossword
Across
- 3. a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass
- 4. a property of matter by which it continues in its existing state of rest or uniform motion in a straight line
- 6. a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction
- 7. Who discovered gravity?
- 8. the center of our solar system
- 9. the third planet from the sun
Down
- 1. an invisible force that attracts a body toward another body of mass
- 2. the fifth planet from the sun
- 5. plant where we live
- 7. cloud of dust and gas where our solar system created