Earth and Space Crossword Puzzle

2. A planet close to earth named after the Roman goddess of love and beauty.
4. – This is the first planet found with the aid of a telescope. It is also the bigger of the two gas planets
6. This occurs when the Sun, Moon and Earth are aligned. The Moon casts a shadow that partially blocks sunlight.
10. A fragment of rock or iron from outer space, can be small or big.
11. this is a high mass star that's core has survived its supernova
13. This is a star after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel. This star was once a red giant but has not cooled down yet
14. – this is a dying star in the last stages of stellar evolution. Our sun will turn into one after a few billion years, expanding and engulfing the inner planets.

1. The most famous of the astronomical phenomena called polar lights.
3. The system that our planet, with many others, resides in.
5. The theory that we believe created the universe and everything in it.
7. An icy, “snowball” is space that is made up of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the Sun
8. – This the planets farthest away from the sun (excluding Pluto) and is the smaller of the two gas planets
9. The distance that light travels in one year, a unit of "measurement".
12. A system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter that is bound by gravity.