The Onyx Sea
Across
- 2. The amount of time it takes the ISS to complete one full orbit around earth
- 5. Our home in the universe, the galaxy that has our solar system in it
- 6. The demon star, apears to blink in the night sky, dims every 2.8 days, part of the constelation purseus
- 10. An object that is in another, larger, objects orbit, like moons
- 15. The amount of matter an objec t contains
- 17. Largest man made spacecraft in earths orbit, houses astronauts and cosmonauts, lots of science experiments relating to space are done there
- 18. The closest star system to our solar system,4.37 light-years away
- 20. The resistence to a change in an objects motion
- 21. Our floating ball of rock that orbits a star
- 22. Big floating ball of rock or gas or something, that orbits a star
- 23. A pair of twin brown dwarf stars, these stars emmit 1 millionth the light of our sun, only visible with a very large NASA telescope
- 24. An asteroid belt 50 AU from the sun, just outside of neptunes orbit, full of large icy bodys and dwarf planets
- 25. First element on the periodic table, one of the two ingredient in water
- 28. The dog star, the brightest star in the night sky, part of the constelation canus major
Down
- 1. A group of stars that form a pattern, used to tell stories
- 3. The wonderful star, a pulsating red giant, gets dimmer and brighter over the course of 332 days, has a tail of glowing gas
- 4. How far light travels in the span of 365 days and 6 hours
- 7. The force that keeps you on the ground
- 8. A space telescope that is orbiting earth, has taken more than 1.7 million pictures, named after Astronomer Edwin
- 9. A space probe very very far away, took a picture of Earth from the edge of the solar system
- 11. Massive groups of stars and stellar remnants and dark matter
- 12. A red supergiant star, 6th brightest star in the night sky, part of the constelation orion
- 13. A star in the northern hemisphere used for navigation, part of ursa minor
- 14. A space where gravity is so immense, not even light can escape
- 16. Big burning ball of gas
- 19. The closest galaxy to the milky way and a constellation in the northern hemisphere
- 26. Somthing going around a center of gravity
- 27. Aftermath of a supernova, where stars are born