SOLAR AND LUNAR ECLIPSES

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Across
  1. 5. An object through which light cannot pass is known as an _________ object.
  2. 8. The ________ doesn't have its own natural light.
  3. 9. Eclipses are beautiful ___________ phenomena.
  4. 10. The shadow that gets smaller as it reaches the earth is known as the ____________
  5. 11. The Latin word for moon
Down
  1. 1. A person who studies the sun, moon, stars etc
  2. 2. We need a special __________ to look at the sun directly during a solar eclipse.
  3. 3. Solar eclipses if seen with the naked eye damage the eye _________________.
  4. 4. For a total solar eclipse, the sun, moon and the earth should be in a __________line.
  5. 6. Sometimes due to this condition in the sky, we are unable to see an eclipse.
  6. 7. When the earth comes in between the sun and the earth, it is called a ___________ eclipse.