Space-type autism
Across
- 3. A small Solar System body with either a perihelion or a semi-major axis between those of the outer planets
- 8. A moment in time used as a reference point for some time-varying astronomical quantity
- 10. A line running north–south across the sky
- 11. The vast, bubble-like cavity in the interstellar medium which surrounds and is created by the plasma emanating from the Earth's Sun
- 13. A neutron star that puts out pulses of radio energy
- 15. The surface velocity at which the centrifugal force generated by a rapidly spinning star matches the force of Newtonian gravity
Down
- 1. Of or relating to a star or star system
- 2. A concentration of mass formed out of the contraction of a collapsing interstellar cloud
- 4. The distance in space at which an object would subtend a parallax angle of 1 arc second from Earth
- 5. A German scientist who used Tycho Brahe's observations of planetary motions to devise three empirical laws
- 6. A relatively small, icy body that displays extended features when it approaches the Sun
- 7. The entirety of space and time and their contents
- 9. The scientific study of the origin, evolution, and eventual fate of the Universe
- 12. A distant, point-like energy source originating from a powerful active galactic nucleus
- 14. A huge collection of stars