Across
- 3. the red planet, has polar ice cap
- 4. the galaxy our Solar System is located in
- 11. a group of billions of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity
- 12. a central star with planets and other objects orbiting it
- 16. the farthest planet away from the sun
- 17. The largest planet in the solar system
- 19. a cloud of gases and dust found in outer space
- 20. the only planet with a vertical rotation
- 23. the only planet with life
- 25. The first planet away from the sun
- 26. glowing chunks of ice and gases with a long streaking tail
Down
- 1. colliding rocks, ice, dust begins a planet
- 2. a force of attraction between all objects
- 5. a measurement used for measuring distances in the Universe
- 6. the hottest planet in the Solar System
- 7. used to be a planet but now it's a dwarf
- 8. a measurement for the brightness of a star
- 9. the most visible ring system in all the planets in our solar system
- 10. a round object that orbits a star
- 13. a "shooting" star
- 14. the process where hydrogen atoms combine and convert to helium atoms that produce the energy inside a star
- 15. the path a planet takes around the sun
- 18. where energy is produced inside the Sun
- 21. space and all the matter and energy in it
- 22. a round gaseous ball of glowing gases
- 24. Large chunks of space rocks
- 25. Earth's natural satellite