Across
- 3. is a system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity
- 5. typically large body of matter with no definite shape
- 7. a celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star
- 9. the fifth planet from the Sun and the largest in the solar system
- 12. The fourth planet from the Sun and the second smallest in the solar system
- 13. a faint, milky-looking band of light visible in the night sky and the spiral galaxy that contains our solar system
- 14. the sun in which the moon does not cover the entire disc of the sun, so that a ring of sunlight surrounds the shadow of the moon
- 15. an artificial body placed in orbit around the earth or moon
- 16. This is an interstellar cloud of gas and dust
- 18. an invisible and hypothetical form of matter that does not interact with light
- 19. the planet on which we live
Down
- 1. A place in space where matter and light cannot escape if they fall in
- 2. a celestial body resembling a small planet but lacking certain technical criteria that are required for it to be classed as such.
- 4. a person that is trained to be in space
- 6. three theorems describing orbital motion
- 8. the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole
- 10. a force that attracts a body toward the center of earth
- 11. The layer of gases surrounding the surface of a planet
- 15. a large, luminous sphere of hot gas
- 17. substellar objects that have more mass than the biggest gas giant planets, but less than the least massive main-sequence stars
