Astronomy Crossword

3. A big hole in space that pulls in everything! (Light, planets, everything!)
5. A space rock that sometimes hits the Earth.
9. A cloud of space dust.
11. The combination of all gases on Earth.
12. A ball of fire in the sky, where fusion of H atoms takes place. (The Sun is an example)
13. A lot of stars and planets in a given part of space.
14. The circle an object makes around another object.

1. A dark spot on the Sun where temperature is lower than the rest of the Sun.
2. An object in space made up of rock or gas and ice, an example is Earth or Mars.
4. The distance light travels in a year = 9.5 trillion km.
6. An object made up of ice and rock that flies through space.
7. A system made up of the Sun and eight planets that go around it. We live in this system.
8. The explosion of a giant star.
10. The wind coming from the Sun.