Astronomy

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Across
  1. 3. A group of stars that form a pattern
  2. 5. the first layer of the atmosphere and it contains all life
  3. 6. A repeating cycle that one celestial body takes around another.
  4. 7. When the moon is completely visible from Earth
  5. 8. the second layer and it contains the ozone layer
  6. 10. Any object that orbits a planet or a sun
  7. 11. the third layer of the atmosphere and it is where meteors burns up
  8. 13. When the moon is invisible to Earth
  9. 18. The region between Mars and Jupiter that contains the largest population of asteroids in our solar system
  10. 19. How much material an object is made up of
  11. 20. A half of the Earth, when divided along the lines of either North and South or East and West
  12. 21. A piece of rock or that lands on Earth’s surface
  13. 23. When day and night are the same length. This happens twice a year
  14. 24. The force that pulls objects towards each other
Down
  1. 1. When one celestial body blocks light from reaching another by moving between it and its light source
  2. 2. When the moon becomes gradually less visible
  3. 4. Streaks of light in the sky that occur when meteoroids fall into the Earth’s atmosphere and burn up
  4. 9. the fourth layer of the atmosphere and it is where auroras take place.
  5. 12. A building used to observe outer space
  6. 14. When the moon becomes gradually more visible
  7. 15. A piece of rock from outer space that enters Earth’s atmosphere
  8. 16. The shortest and longest days of the year
  9. 17. A celestial body that orbits the sun that has sufficient mass for its gravity to overcome rigid body forces and has "not cleared the neighborhood" around its orbit
  10. 18. Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun
  11. 22. The star that objects in our solar system orbit