Across
- 1. On this day, day and night are approximately of equal duration all over the planet. The day is called as …
- 3. Name of the ancient North Star, one of the stars in a constellation Draco
- 4. One of the zodiacs, which also holds a radiant (a point from which meteors appear to come) of a meteor shower that occurs in mid-November
- 5. Anything relating to stars is called as …
- 8. A gravitationally curved path of an object in space around star or a planet
- 9. The brightest star in the night sky, also known as a ‘dog star’ in colloquially, with Indian name ‘Vyaadha’
Down
- 1. An imaginary circle that divides the earth into halves, Northern hemisphere and Southern hemisphere (also a 0⁰ latitude)
- 2. One of the ice giants; revolution period of 84 years, on which the poles have a day and night of 42 years each
- 6. This constellation is one of the zodiacs. It holds a famous historical supernova remnant, Crab Nebula (Messier 1).
- 7. One of the stars in the constellation of Orion that is observed and reported to be diminishing in its brightness since December 2019, Betelgeuse is a … supergiant star that has exhausted the supply of Hydrogen in its core, and is may be about to explode in a supernova