Our Solar System
Across
- 3. _______ Webb Space Telescope, or JWST, for short. The newest telescope deployed by NASA
- 5. The distance that light travels in one year. It represent large distances
- 8. The movement of Earth around the Sun. It causes the 365-day year.
- 11. A planet that orbits a different star, not the Sun
- 12. A large group of stars, each of them with its own solar system.
- 15. The spinning of Earth around its own axis. It causes a 24-hour day
- 16. This planet has a rocky core and it's surrounded by extremely cold water
Down
- 1. _________ Space Telescope, or HST, for short. A telescope made of mirrors.
- 2. One of the gas giants
- 4. The region in which only a portion of the light source is obscured by the occluding body.
- 6. One of the inner planets. It's the closest to the Sun.
- 7. International Space ____________, or ISS. A headquarter in space used for scientific research and Astronomy studies.
- 9. The darkest part of a shadow
- 10. A very dense region in space, with lots of mass concentrated in a small space
- 13. A form of radiation that can be used to produce images of our bones. It is also used to discover new planets.
- 14. All Gas Giants have these. Some of them are big, some small, but they all have them.