Across
- 1. something that happens rarely or never
- 3. nothing can escape its gravitational pull
- 6. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 7. when the Sun is farthest north or south in the sky
- 8. ice and rocky debris, typically a few miles across, that orbits the Sun in a long ellipse
- 9. great clouds of glowing gas, lit up by stars inside or nearby
- 10. a vast collection of stars, gas, and dust
Down
- 2. faintly glowing band stretching across the night sky, composed of billions of stars in our galaxy
- 4. an event that occurs when the shadow of a planet or moon falls upon a second body
- 5. the set of constellations situated along the ecliptic in the sky, through which the Sun, Moon, and planets move
- 7. a star ending its life in a huge explosion