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Across
  1. 6. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
  2. 8. -a spot or patch that appears from time to time on the sun's surface, appearing dark by contrast with its surroundings.
  3. 9. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.
  4. 11. - a piece of rock or metal that has fallen to the earth's surface
  5. 12. curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft round a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
  6. 13. - an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication.
Down
  1. 1. the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
  2. 2. A comet is an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases
  3. 3. A galaxy is a gravitationally bound system of stars
  4. 4. The Sun is the star at the center of the Solar System.
  5. 5. - A meteoroid is a small rocky or metallic body in outer space.
  6. 7. - a small rocky body orbiting the sun.
  7. 10. -unit of astronomical distance equivalent to the distance that light travels in one year, which is 9.4607 × 1012 km (nearly 6 million million miles).