Science
Across
- 3. a spot or patch that appears from time to time on the sun's surface, appearing dark by contrast with its surroundings.
- 5. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a trail of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
- 8. a natural satellite of any planet.
- 9. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun
- 10. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 11. a unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year
Down
- 1. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution
- 2. the star round which the earth orbits
- 3. a celestial body orbiting the earth or another planet.
- 4. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit round a star
- 6. a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere
- 7. the sun together with the group of celestial bodies that are held by its attraction and revolve around it
- 8. a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth's surface from outer space as a meteor
- 12. a system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction