Astronomy Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. first person to focus the telescope to the heavens
- 8. first artificial Earth satellite
- 9. movement of a planet on its axis
- 10. famous comet
- 12. group of stars forming patterns
- 14. region with such strong gravitational force
- 16. size of the sun
- 17. moon of Saturn
- 18. "Great Bear"
- 20. type of galaxy
- 21. named after the Roman god of love and beauty
- 22. Poseidon
- 23. moon of Jupiter
- 26. leading theory about the origin of the universe
- 28. universe
Down
- 1. moon of Mars
- 2. first man on space
- 3. meteoroid which falls to the ground
- 4. all the matter and energy and contents of space
- 5. highest mountain in the Solar System
- 6. copernican
- 7. someone who studies astronomy
- 11. a dwarf planet
- 12. Saturn
- 13. first animal to orbit the Earth
- 15. nearest galaxy to the Milky Way
- 19. ringed planet
- 24. Hades
- 25. brightest star in the Earth's sky
- 27. collection of gas, dust and billions of stars