Across
- 3. Unit of measurement used to measure the distance to stars and galaxies in space.
- 5. A star in the Milky Way galaxy located in a spiral arm about two-thirds of the way from the center of the galaxy
- 7. The spiral galaxy in which you live on
- 8. Studied in relation to the planet they orbit
- 10. Belt between Mars and Jupiter
Down
- 1. Space rocks smaller than an asteroid floating randomly in space
- 2. may have either a terrestrial/rocky surface or a gaseous surface
- 4. Made up of the planets, moon, asteroids, comets, dust and gas that orbit the sun
- 6. Most are rocky bodies that orbit in a region in the solar system know as the
- 9. made up of gas, dust, and billions of stars and have different shapes