Star Cycle
Across
- 3. the North star
- 7. a huge collection of gas dust and stars
- 10. the planet we live on
- 11. helps bring together international flight crews
- 12. a region of stars visible during winter in the northern hemisphere
- 15. an icy solar body
- 16. a telescope that has been put into space and helps us explore earth within 24 hours
- 17. a heavenly body occurring naturally as a physical entity
- 21. a triple star system in the southern consellations
- 23. a object in space that resembles a plant but lacks the criteria to become and actual planet
- 24. the galaxy that has earth
- 25. the first spacecraft to cross the heilosphere
- 27. the thing that keeps us on earth so we don't just fly off
- 28. based on the amount of matter in an object
Down
- 1. a unit to measure the distance light travels
- 2. a group of stars that form an imaginary shape in the sky
- 4. a thing in the sky made of gas
- 5. defies the boundary where the velocity needed to escape exceeds the light
- 6. a barred spiral galaxy
- 8. a manmade object we put into space
- 9. a region of stars that is beyond the orbit of Neptune
- 13. the first law created by Issac Newton
- 14. a giant cloud of gas
- 18. a celestial object that orbits the sun
- 19. the amount of time it takes the ISS to make a full rotation around earth
- 20. stars and gas clouds in one or more spiral arms
- 22. a clean alternative to methane
- 26. the curved path of a celestial object