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