Across
- 2. Space tools that are used to collect light from distant stars which separate the light into bands of different colors.
- 4. A unit of measurement used in space (measures the distance to stars and galaxies) and is equal to the distance light travels in one year.
- 5. Made up of dust, gas, and billions of stars, they have different shapes (irregular, spiral, elliptical).
- 6. The Sun and Moon are at right angles to each other (first and last quarter).
- 7. A star located in the Milky Way galaxy about two-thirds away from the center of the galaxy.
- 8. Changes that occur in the Moon as it revolves around the Earth.
- 11. A space tool that uses convex lenses to focus and bend light rays of objects in space.
Down
- 1. A space tool that uses mirrors to focus light rays to produce images.
- 3. The galaxy in which we live in.
- 9. The outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere.
- 10. Peices of rock material that burn as they enter a planet's atmosphere.