Earth and Space Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 3. A white dwarf that has cooled so it no longer emits dangerous amount of heat or light.
- 4. A collapsed core of a giant star which before collapse. They are the smallest and densest of stars, stage 5.
- 5. A system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter that is bound by gravity.
- 6. An icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases.
- 9. This occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. The Moon casts a shadow that partially blocks sunlight.
- 12. The biggest of the two gas planets.
- 13. A fragment of rock or iron from outer space, can be small or big.
Down
- 1. The most famous of the astronomical phenomena called polar lights.
- 2. A star after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel, stage 9.
- 3. The theory that we believe created the universe and everything in it.
- 7. The system that our planet, with many others reside in.
- 8. The smaller of the two gas planets
- 10. The distance that light travels in one year, a unit of "measurement".
- 11. A planet close to earth named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.