Astronomy Terminology Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. Enormous clouds of dust and gas.
  2. 6. You find many of these on the moon, and a big one in Mexico!
  3. 8. The most familiar rocky planet.
  4. 11. A moon, planet or star that orbits something else.
  5. 13. The first ever visit here was in 1969.
  6. 15. Our sun and everything that orbits it.
  7. 16. Our ‘almost’ planet.
  8. 17. A constellation named after the son of Poseidon.
  9. 18. The tiniest and dimmest star.
Down
  1. 2. An inescapable and gravity dense region.
  2. 3. The first element.
  3. 4. A glowing ball of gas.
  4. 5. An optical device made with glass or plastic.
  5. 7. Everything that exists; the cosmos.
  6. 9. A device mainly used with concave lenses.
  7. 10. This crossword’s maker!
  8. 12. A star’s final show.
  9. 14. The result of a perfect balance between the forward motion of a body in space.
  10. 15. When you look up, you look to the …
  11. 19. In our solar system there are large numbers of these found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.