Space
Across
- 2. great clouds of glowing gas,
- 4. A supermassive black hole gorging on gas at the center of a distant galaxy.
- 5. An event that occurs when the shadow of a planet or moon falls upon a second body
- 6. Denotes an object near a celestial pole that never dips below the horizon as Earth rotates and thus does not rise or set.
- 7. A temporary dark blemish on the surface of the Sun
- 11. A star whose brightness changes over the course of days, weeks, months, or years.
- 12. The angle between the plane of an orbit
Down
- 1. second full Moon in a single calendar month.
- 3. A star ending its life in a huge explosion
- 8. The path among the stars traced by the Sun throughout the year
- 9. A massive ball of gas that generates prodigious amounts of energy
- 10. A slight tipping and tilting of the Moon