Space Keywords

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Across
  1. 3. Consists of the Sun and everything that orbits, or travels around, the Sun. This includes the eight planets and their moons, dwarf planets, and countless asteroids, comets, and other small, icy objects.
  2. 4. Planet that orbits a star outside our solar system.
  3. 6. Path taken by a satellite, planet or star moving around a larger body. Earth completes one orbit of the Sun every year.
Down
  1. 1. The distance light travels in a year (over 9 million, million kilometres).
  2. 2. Collection of stars held together by gravity. Our galaxy is called the Milky Way.
  3. 5. Bodies which give out light, and which may have a solar system of planets.