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