Space Talk
Across
- 1. The only star in our solar system.
- 2. holes A region in space that is so dense that not even light can escape.
- 3. A cloud of dust and gas in space known as a birth place for stars.
- 5. A small rocky object in orbit around the sun.
- 8. A group of stars that form a shape of picture in the sky.
- 11. A term used to describe a point directly underneath an object or body.
- 12. A narrow stream of gas or particles ejected from an accretion disk surrounding a star or black hole.
- 14. Water in its solid state.
- 15. The name of our galaxy.
- 16. A giant ball of hot gas that emits its own radiation.
- 19. A phenomenon that occurs when the moon passes into the shadow of the earth.
- 21. The area around a planet most affected by its magnetic field.
- 23. Referred to two times a year the sun rays are furthest from the equator.
- 24. A measure of the total amount of material in a body.
- 25. A meteor that hits earth is completely burned up.
- 27. A large ball of ice and rock that orbits the sun.
- 28. Everything around us is part of it and is 13.7 billion years old.
- 29. Water does not exist in its liquid form past this point.
- 32. Star The hottest stars are.
- 33. A mutual physical force of nature that causes too bodies to attract each other.
- 34. The planet we live on.
Down
- 1. Station A satellite orbiting the earth that people can live on.
- 4. The name for a human that goes up to space.
- 5. The closest planet to the sun.
- 6. A distance equal to 1000 parsecs.
- 7. The measurement we use within our solar system.
- 9. The measurement we use within our universe.
- 10. Dark patches on the suns surface.
- 13. An element containing of one electron and one proton.
- 15. An imaginary circle drawn through the north and south poles.
- 17. A scientific device that scientist use to observe celestial objects in space.
- 18. A term used to describe all elements except hydrogen and helium.
- 20. A small particle of rock or dust that burns away in the earths atmosphere.
- 22. The gasses that surrounds a planet or moon.
- 26. An explosion that some scientists believe created the universe.
- 30. The path of a celestial body as it moves through space.
- 31. A word used to describe anything that contains mass.