Space Review
Across
- 2. Our galaxy
- 4. A "cool" colour of star
- 6. What AU stands for
- 9. The furthest planet from the sun
- 10. The 'death' of a star resulting in a neutron star or black hole
- 12. The epoch during which stars and galaxies formed
- 13. Incredibly small subatomic particles that make up protons and neutrons
- 16. The innermost part of any star
- 17. an object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape
- 18. An alternative theory to the Big Bang
- 19. Separates the inner and outer planets
- 22. A measure of distance that describes how long it takes light from an object to reach where we are now
- 23. Happens at 10 million degrees Celsius
- 24. A huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity
Down
- 1. When half the moon is illuminated, we call it the first or third this
- 3. The closest planet to the sun
- 5. Another name for the inner planets
- 7. Most commonly accepted theory on the formation of the solar system
- 8. CME, or...
- 11. One of these is the distance between Earth and the sun
- 14. A natural, rocky satellite orbiting a planet
- 15. Another name for the outer planets
- 18. A part of Earth's atmosphere that absorbs the sun's radiation
- 20. The least common type of galaxy
- 21. The main factor in determining what will happen to a star after it 'dies'