Astronomy Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. planet of life
- 5. leading theory about the origin of the universe
- 8. someone who studies astronomy
- 11. collection of gas,dust and billions of stars
- 12. meteoroid which falls to the ground
- 13. a moon of Jupiter
- 14. highest mountain in the Solar System
- 15. movement of a planet on its axis
- 17. heliocentric
- 20. a type of galaxy
- 22. famous comet appearing every 76 years
- 23. natural satellite of the moon
- 24. rocky body too small to be called planet
- 25. first artificial satellite ever launched
Down
- 1. named after the Roman god of love and beauty
- 2. moon of Mars
- 4. first person to focus the telescope to the heavens
- 6. a constellation meaning "Great Bear"
- 7. group of stars which forms imaginary patterns
- 9. brightest star in the Earth's sky
- 10. "ringed planet"
- 16. nearest galaxy to the Milky Way
- 18. universe
- 19. size of the Sun
- 21. first man on space