Astronomy

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Across
  1. 1. the period of darkness in each twenty-four hours; the time from sunset to sunrise.
  2. 6. fixed luminous point in the night sky which is a large, remote incandescent body like the sun.
  3. 7. day meets night? the terminator: Orbital plane
  4. 8. natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun
  5. 9. branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole.
Down
  1. 1. quieter and more peaceful than daytime
  2. 2. phase is the moon in today?: Waxing Gibbous
  3. 3. clouds, raindrops, the Sun, the Moon, stars.
  4. 4. a period of twenty-four hours as a unit of time, reckoned from one midnight to the next, corresponding to a rotation of the earth on its axis.
  5. 5. Phase: Some nights, the Moon might look like a narrow crescent. Other nights, the Moon might look like a bright circle. And on other nights, you might not be able to see the Moon at all. The different shapes of the Moon that we see at different times of the month are called the Moon's phases.
  6. 7. why we get seasons?: Orbital plane
  7. 10. of the four divisions of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter) marked by particular weather patterns and daylight hours, resulting from the earth's changing position with regard to the sun.