Things in Space

2. a natural satellite that orbits any planet including the earth
5. a system of millions or billions of stars and other things, held together by gravitation attraction.
6. a natural or artificial body that orbits a larger body.
8. a piece of rock or metal that fell from outer space as a meteor.
10. an area on the sun that is highly magnetic and appears dark in contrast to the rest of the sun.
11. a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere and appears as a streak of light.
12. a large luminous spherical object, mainly composed of plasma and held together by its own gravity.

1. a collection of planets and other celestial bodies that orbit around one central star.
3. A celestial body moving in a elliptical orbit around a star.
4. a measure of travel equivalent to the speed that light travels through the universe.
7. a celestial object made of rock, frozen gases, and dust that orbits the Sun
9. the path that an object takes when going around a star, planet or a moon.
10. the star that Earth orbits.
13. a small rocky body orbiting the sun. Large numbers of these, ranging enormously in size, are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, though some have more eccentric orbits.