Vastness in Space Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. The star at the center of our solar system
  2. 3. A large body in space that orbits a star and does not produce light of its own
  3. 5. The distance that light travels in one year
  4. 7. large clumps of ice, dust and frozen gases that travel around the Sun in long elliptical orbits
  5. 8. sun, planets, and all the other objects that revolve around the sun
  6. 11. A chunk of rock or dust in space
  7. 12. A collection of stars, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
  8. 13. Space and all the matter and energy in it
Down
  1. 1. large clouds of gas and dust floating in space
  2. 4. A unit of length used for distances within the solar system
  3. 6. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
  4. 9. A force that pulls objects toward each other
  5. 10. An object that orbits the sun and is spherical, but has not cleared the area of its orbit.
  6. 11. A natural satellite that revolves around a planet.