Astronomy Review
Across
- 3. Scientists' best theory about the origin of the universe (2 words)
- 5. The gigantic explosion at the end of large stars' lives
- 7. Chunks of rock and other debris that may orbit a star
- 11. A collection of billions of stars
- 12. Groups of stars that appear to form a picture in the sky
- 14. The biggest main sequence stars transform into these types of stars at the end of their lives (2 words)
- 16. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are this type of planet
- 17. A star is called this type of star in the middle of its life (2 words)
- 22. An event in which, from the Earth's perspective, the Moon becomes darker and red because it is passing through Earth's shadow, which in turn is caused by the Sun (2 words)
- 23. A motion in which an object spins around an internal axis
- 25. All matter, energy and space that we can observe
- 26. A term describing a galaxy that has a rounded, oval-like shape
- 27. At the end of a star's life, it transforms into one of these types of stars
- 28. A term describing a galaxy that has a swirl shape
- 29. Chunks of ice and dirt that often have very irregular orbits around stars
Down
- 1. The largest objects that orbit a planet
- 2. Regular patterns of ocean activity caused by the relative positions of the Sun and Moon
- 3. What the largest stars turn into after a supernova (2 words)
- 4. What a star turns into after its giant phase (2 words)
- 6. A ball of hot gas and plasma that gives off light
- 8. Large bodies that orbit a star
- 9. Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are this type of planet
- 10. The idea that the Sun is at the center of the universe
- 13. What a star turns into if it was not quite big enough to turn into a black hole (2 words)
- 15. A term describing a galaxy that has no apparent pattern to its shape
- 18. An event in which, from the Earth's perspective, the Moon passes in front of the Sun and blocks out its light (2 words)
- 19. The path that an object in space follows
- 20. The idea that the Earth is at the center of the universe
- 21. A motion in which one object moves around another
- 24. Where stars are "born