Astronomy & Space

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Across
  1. 1. Earth's only natural satellite
  2. 3. The mathematically correct, three-dimensional shape of Earth, roughly
  3. 5. The occupation of Christopher Columbus, who disproved the fall-off-the-world theory
  4. 7. Not an element, but a misspelling of a famous 16th-century explorer who circumnavigated the globe
  5. 9. A gas giant that rotates on its side, named for the Greek god of the sky
  6. 11. A giant cloud of gas and dust where new stars are born
  7. 12. The curved path, usually elliptical, that an object takes around a star or plane
  8. 13. The dramatic drop where flat-earthers fear ships will fall.
Down
  1. 1. The fourth planet from the Sun, often called the "Red Planet
  2. 2. A voyage you could never complete if you sailed off the side of the planet.(Flat Earth Humor twist)
  3. 4. What disappears from view first (bottom to top) when a ship departs, proving the curvature
  4. 6. A system of millions or billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity
  5. 8. According to some theories, the creatures controlling the world from a hollow center (Humorous theory)
  6. 10. A small, icy body that, when passing near the Sun, displays a visible coma and tail