Astronomy Crossword

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Across
  1. 3. A black hole with energetic jets beaming out from two sides
  2. 6. When planets move backwards
  3. 8. The amount of light a celestial object emits
  4. 9. A type of variable star that is very bright and not very common
  5. 11. Types of planets that are huge gas balls, including, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
  6. 12. Organisms that are able to live in extreme environments
  7. 14. A spinning neutron star that periodically flashes radiation towards earth
  8. 15. The outer layer of the sun
  9. 18. The largest Galilean moon
  10. 19. A distance the wave requires to complete one oscillation
Down
  1. 1. A small rocky object that orbits the sun
  2. 2. Type of stars that have a hot dense core which fuses hydrogen into helium to produce energy (2 words)
  3. 4. A type of galaxy that forms stars
  4. 5. A mixture of gases that surrounds a planet
  5. 7. A group of stars that form a pattern
  6. 10. A giant cloud of dust and gas in space
  7. 13. An instrument used for examining spectra especially in the visible region of electromagnetic spectrum
  8. 16. A small, mobile robot that is sent to moons and planets to land and explore their surfaces
  9. 17. When the wavelength of the light is stretched so the light is seen as shifted towards the red part of the spectrum