Star-Quest

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Across
  1. 2. First of its kind from India, the beginning of a story
  2. 4. Alignment, but not in Documents, amongst the ones that make up space
  3. 5. Pompeii's curse, when frozen and cold
  4. 7. In your path going round, you find yourself farthest from the light you found
  5. 8. A pause, solar winds must not cross
  6. 9. Mammoths with variable luminosities, used to measure distances in astronomy
  7. 15. ISRO reaches its arms out towards the commercial sector, launches satellites that keep us connected
  8. 16. Last name, Endeavour took her to space
  9. 18. Living but in space, studied as one studies on Earth
  10. 19. A cloud visible at twilight, high above the world
Down
  1. 1. Made of two words, studied Saturn and it's rings for (2*6)+1 years
  2. 3. Aided the Chandrayaan missions as they took their first steps on the moon
  3. 6. Two words, Why is the night so dark, when the stars shine so bright?
  4. 7. God of the Sun, helped us reach his twin
  5. 10. Staring into the eyes of space since 1990
  6. 11. A point in an ellipse, farthest from the focus
  7. 12. ACRONYM, often called NavIC
  8. 13. Built by soviets, reached the goddess of love
  9. 14. Last name, pioneered much, remembered most as the father of astronautics
  10. 17. Last name, tragically lost in Columbia
  11. 18. A mirror's work, but a planet's mass