J. Rhodes Space Crossword

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Across
  1. 1. a broad band of light that can be seen in the night sky and that is caused by the light of a very large number of faint stars
  2. 4. a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor
  3. 7. a colourless, odourless, tasteless, flammable gaseous substance that is the simplest member of the family of chemical elements
  4. 8. a red supergiant star of spectral type M1-2 and one of the largest visible to the naked eye
  5. 9. a space probe launched by NASA on September 5, 1977
  6. 10. a group of stars that forms a particular shape in the sky and has been given a name
  7. 12. a doughnut-shaped ring of icy objects around the Sun, extending just beyond the orbit of Neptune from about 30 to 55 AU.
  8. 14. sits more or less directly above Earth's north pole along our planet's rotational axis
  9. 15. is the source of our light and is a big star
  10. 18. a moon, planet or machine that orbits a planet or star
  11. 20. a hour and 30 mins transferred to all minutes
  12. 21. a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
  13. 22. we live on the planet called _______
  14. 23. a large telescope in space.
  15. 25. a luminous ball of gas, mostly hydrogen and helium, held together by its own gravity
  16. 26. guardians of the ________
Down
  1. 2. a large spacecraft in orbit around Earth
  2. 3. an Ethiopian princess of Greek mythology rescued from a monster by her future husband Perseus
  3. 4. our ______ is called earth
  4. 5. a force that makes thing fall down
  5. 6. property of a body by virtue of which it opposes any agency that attempts to put it in motion or, if it is moving, to change the magnitude or direction of its velocity
  6. 11. a star system, and is widely believed to be the closest to the solar system at a distance of 4.37 light years
  7. 13. an extreme red hypergiant or red supergiant star in the constellation Scutum
  8. 16. a giant cloud of dust and gas in space
  9. 17. a dimensionless quantity representing the amount of matter in a particle or object
  10. 19. buzz _______ from toy story
  11. 24. a place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out
  12. 25. the brightest star in the night sky. called also Dog Star