Mr. Tultz's Space Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. Known as the Red Planet
  2. 5. A person who travels into space
  3. 7. The Sun and all the objects that move around it
  4. 13. The farthest planet from the Sun
  5. 14. A space object with gravity so strong that even light can’t escape
  6. 15. The star at the center of our solar system
  7. 16. Our galaxy
  8. 17. A huge group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity
  9. 19. A large round object that travels around a star
  10. 20. The layer of gases around a planet
  11. 22. The planet with beautiful rings
  12. 24. An object that moves around a planet; can be natural or man-made
  13. 25. The force that pulls objects toward each other
Down
  1. 1. The path one object takes as it moves around another
  2. 2. A blue-green planet that spins on its side
  3. 4. A glowing ball of hot gas that gives off light and heat
  4. 6. The largest planet in our solar system
  5. 8. The distance light travels in one year
  6. 9. A star that explodes brightly at the end of its life
  7. 10. A tool used to see distant objects in space
  8. 11. Everything that exists
  9. 12. a cloud of gas and dust in space
  10. 16. The planet closest to the Sun
  11. 18. The hottest planet in our solar system
  12. 21. The planet we live on
  13. 23. A rocky object that orbits the Sun, smaller than a planet