Exoplanets

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Across
  1. 10. - Type of planet Kepler helped find in habitable zones
  2. 11. - Region around a star where liquid water could exist
  3. 12. - Planets that orbit stars outside our solar system
  4. 14. - Acronym for the James Webb Space Telescope
  5. 15. - NASA space telescope that discovered thousands of exoplanets
  6. 16. - Metric showing how quickly new planets were found
  7. 18. - Technique used by JWST to analyze planet atmospheres
  8. 20. - Future tech to help telescopes block starlight and see planets
  9. 21. - Indicators in atmosphere that may suggest biological activity
  10. 22. - Instrument on Kepler that measured star brightness
Down
  1. 1. - Where Kepler’s mission data is stored and studied
  2. 2. - Another term for the habitable zone
  3. 3. - Star system with seven Earth-size planets
  4. 4. - Term used for exoplanets with possible habitability
  5. 5. - Layer of gases surrounding a planet, important for habitability
  6. 6. - Event that mimics a planetary transit but isn't a planet
  7. 7. - Collection of planets orbiting a single star
  8. 8. - Light wavelength range JWST is optimized to detect
  9. 9. - Nickname for astronomers searching for exoplanets
  10. 13. - A graph showing brightness changes over time
  11. 15. - Extended Kepler mission after initial hardware failure
  12. 17. - Term for when Kepler officially ran out of fuel and shut down
  13. 19. - Optical instrument used to observe distant objects
  14. 20. - Dense region of stars Kepler continuously observed
  15. 23. - Method Kepler used to detect planets by observing dips in starlight