Astronomy

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Across
  1. 2. in which they are located.
  2. 4. Most are rocky bodies that orbit in a region in the solar system known as the Asteroid Belt between Mars and Jupiter.
  3. 9. occurs when an object in space passes directly between two other objects or between the object and the viewer.
  4. 11. Most are rocky bodies covered with craters, but some have unique characteristics.
  5. 12. made up of gas, dust, and billions of stars and have different shapes.
Down
  1. 1. the outer most layer of the Sun’s atmosphere, also emits light but is only visible as a white halo during a solar eclipse.
  2. 3. the curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or
  3. 5. appear as dark spots on the photosphere. They are actually moving areas
  4. 6. magnetic activity with temperatures that are cooler than the area of the
  5. 7. chunks of rock that burn upon entering a planet’s atmosphere.
  6. 8. The galaxy in which you live.
  7. 10. The effects of the solar winds result in the tail always points away from the
  8. 11. Usually elliptical and dependent of the mass of the object it is