Kathryn Dezern 2nd period Astronomy
Across
- 2. is a group of millions and billions of stars held together by their own gravity.
- 3. patterns of temperature changes and other
- 6. radiation which is energy that travels across distances as certain type of waves
- 8. is an object that orbits a more massive object.
- 10. the colors that make up visible light are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet
- 13. is the path of an object in space as it moves around another object because of gravity
- 14. is the motion of one object around another
- 15. station is a satellite in which people can live and work for long periods
Down
- 1. is a device that gathers electromagnetic radiation.
- 4. is a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky
- 5. is the distance between one wave peak and the next wave peak.
- 7. is a craft designed to land on a planets surface
- 8. system the sun, the planets, and various smaller bodies
- 9. of rotation earth rotates around an imaginary line running through the center
- 11. is often used to describe a spacecraft that drops into a planets atmosphere
- 12. is everything - space and all the matter and energy in it.