Eclipses
Across
- 2. Keep from being seen, overshadow, block from view
- 4. An event in which the shadow of one celestial object falls on another celestial object
- 5. The bending of light as it passes through material
- 6. The lighter part, edge, of a shadow that surrounds the umbra
- 8. The angle of an object's orbit around a celestial body, the change in orbital plane
- 10. Eclipse when the whole of the disk of the sun or moon is obscured
- 12. Sun’s outer layer, visible only during a total solar eclipse, when it is seen as surrounding the darkened disk of the moon
Down
- 1. Eclipse when part of the sun or moon is obscured or darkened
- 3. Something that deceives the eye by appearing to be other than it is
- 7. Eclipse caused when light from the sun is blocked by the moon, and the moon’s shadow falls on Earth
- 9. Eclipse caused when the moon passes through Earth’s shadow
- 11. Darkness within space from which rays from a source of light are cut off by an blocking object