Things in Space

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Across
  1. 6. an area of high magnetic activity, on the surface of the Sun
  2. 8. an artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication
  3. 9. celestial objects made out of frozen gases, rock and dust that orbit the Sun
  4. 10. the path that an object takes in space when it goes around a star, a planet, or a moon
  5. 11. a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity
  6. 12. the star at the centre of the Solar System
  7. 13. a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year or about 5.88 trillion miles (9.46 trillion kilometres)
  2. 2. large natural object that orbits, or travels around, a planet
  3. 3. Small chunks of rock that travel through space
  4. 4. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
  5. 5. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
  6. 6. a fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun
  7. 7. Sun and all of the smaller objects that move around it