Space
Across
- 2. An empty space that doesn't have any matter.
- 4. A set that includes a star and all of the matter that orbits it, including planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other objects.
- 6. An icy rock that lets off gas and dust, which may form tails when it is flying close to a sun.
- 7. A vehicle used for traveling in space.
- 8. Rocks floating around in space. Some are the size of a pick-up truck. Others are hundreds of miles across.
- 10. A large body in outer space that circles around the sun or another star.
- 12. All of space and time, and everything in it.
- 14. A natural object that travels around a bigger natural object.
- 15. The energy or particles released from sources like radioactive materials, explosions, and chemical reactions.
- 16. The star in the center of our solar system.
- 17. The curved path that a planet, satellite, or spacecraft moves as it circles around another object.
Down
- 1. How we describe some atoms that are unstable. They change into different kinds of atoms and release lots of energy.
- 3. An object that orbits another object
- 4. a ball of shining gas, made mostly of hydrogen and helium, held together by its own gravity.
- 5. The amount of matter something is made of.
- 9. The explosion of a star that makes it as bright as a whole galaxy.
- 11. The gases held by gravity around Earth and around other planets
- 13. A force that pulls matter together.