Astronomy terms

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Across
  1. 3. is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity
  2. 5. typically large body of matter with no definite shape
  3. 7. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
  4. 9. the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the solar system
  5. 12. The fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest in the solar system
  6. 13. a faint, milky-looking band of light visible in the night sky and the spiral galaxy that contains our solar system
  7. 14. the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon
  8. 15. an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon
  9. 16. This is an interstellar cloud of gas and dust
  10. 18. an invisible and hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light
  11. 19. the planet on which we live
Down
  1. 1. A place in space where matter and light cannot escape if they fall in
  2. 2. a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
  3. 4. a person that is trained to be in space
  4. 6. three theorems describing orbital motion
  5. 8. the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole
  6. 10. a force that attracts a body toward the center of earth
  7. 11. The layer of gases surrounding the surface of a planet
  8. 15. a large, luminous sphere of hot gas
  9. 17. substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars