star crossword puzzle
Across
- 2. a giant glowing cloud of gas and dust
- 4. a bright yellow giant that is actually a system
- 5. an object that orbits a larger celestial body
- 6. The North star
- 8. the thing that is in the sky at night that is small
- 12. The galaxy that contains out solar system
- 14. the distance that light travels in one Earth year
- 18. The closest major spiral Galaxy to our own Milky Way
- 19. What earth does around the sun
- 20. The ____ space telescope is a space based obserbaory launched by NASA in 1990
- 22. an imaginary patter of stars in the night sky that form recognizable shapes
- 23. The second brightest star
- 24. The thing that is holding us on earth
- 25. The ultradian cycle, your brain's natural rhythm of alertness focus and rest
- 26. An astronomical body compact that its gravity prevents aanything
- 27. a bluish white star that was historically used as the base line
Down
- 1. a massive artificial satellite called ISS
- 3. The __ of and object
- 7. The brightest star in the night sky
- 9. A highly luminous blue supergiant
- 10. The most abundant chemical element in the universe
- 11. in space we are a floating ___
- 13. A massive doughnut shaped region of icy bodies and dwarf planets
- 15. The closest star to our solar system
- 16. The tendency of objects to resist changes in their current state of motion
- 17. The planet we are on right now
- 21. a robotic space probe launched by NASA on sep.5 1977