Space-type autism

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