Across
- 3. A massive star-like feature at the center of some galaxies
- 5. A star and any matter that orbits it
- 8. A planet’s natural satellite
- 10. A group of closely neighboring stars
- 13. The fastest planet
- 15. A vehicle used to leave the atmosphere
- 17. What the media falsely claimed Sugar Ribose to be (found on an asteroid)
- 18. The center of every solar system
- 23. Colorful clouds of gas and dust that are known as “Star Nurseries”
- 24. The first orbital telescope
- 26. One of Saturn’s moons with a thick atmosphere
- 27. Acid Methane Diamond Glass and Sapphire are all examples of planetary ______
- 30. A device made of mirrors and glass to magnify the stars
- 31. The planet with the most moons (in our solar system)
- 33. The most popular dwarf planet
- 39. A planet outside of our solar system
- 42. Planet H in our solar system
- 47. To transform an area into a livable ecosystem
- 49. A key element for determining the chemical make-up of stars and planets
- 50. Earth’s “Evil Twin”
- 51. An object in planetary orbit
- 53. The heaviest element that “living” stars can produce
- 54. The largest celestial thing we know of
- 56. The practice of using the light spectrum to identify chemical compounds in stellar objects
- 58. The “father of modern optics” created refracting telescopes (which are the telescope of choice for Astronomy)
- 59. The time period that greatly accelerated space exploration
- 61. A moon that orbits the sun
- 62. Often deemed the prettiest for its rings
- 63. Mysterious cause of universal expansion
- 64. A multi-terrain vehicle used for the exploration and study of foreign terrains
- 65. A piece of rock and metal that has breached Earth’s atmosphere with a streak of light
Down
- 1. Mysterious cause of universal compression
- 2. What occurs to objects pulled into a black hole
- 4. This planet was tilted due to an impact during the solar system’s formation
- 6. Bursts of magnetic lava from the surface of the sun that cause auroras
- 7. How the universe began
- 9. Radiation from stellar collapse
- 10. Pluto’s largest moon
- 11. Gagarin, The first person to complete a full orbit of the earth
- 12. Celestial objects that have an elliptical orbit around a star
- 14. All planets in any solar system are named ____________ based on their proximity to the sun
- 16. A word meaning both a planet and it’s surface
- 19. When a planet or other celestial object passes in front of a star and temporarily blocks part of its light (used for planetary discovery)
- 20. Every celestial object from the moon to the stars will experience this within one giga-year (one billion years)
- 21. A region of space so dense that it warps even light
- 22. The idea that time and gravity are warped by an object’s mass
- 23. the United States’ Space Agency
- 25. What supermassive stars become before dying
- 28. A massive system of stars gas and dust held together by gravity
- 29. Stellar collapse
- 32. A multinational scientific project that has lasted over twenty years
- 34. An object made of ice and dust with a gaseous tail
- 35. A relatively small piece of rock that orbits the sun
- 36. A rocket-launched spacecraft used for repeated trips
- 37. The hypothetical ninth planet
- 38. A lunar mission named after a greek god
- 40. The most common element in the universe (that we know of)
- 41. The second most common element in the universe (that we know of)
- 43. The force that hold the universe together
- 44. The newest orbital telescope by NASA
- 45. A lunar mission named after a greek goddess
- 46. A sellar object resulting of a failed black hole
- 48. The person to discover Jupiter’s four largest moons with his telescope
- 52. Effectively a baby star
- 55. The largest moon in our solar system
- 57. The second most popular planet (4)
- 60. Once main-sequence stars burn out they often become ___________ stars