Across
- 2. The initial explosion that resulted in the formation and explosion of the universe
- 7. The movement of an object around another object
- 8. The brilliant explosion at a dying super giant star
- 9. A stream of electrically charged particles that emanate from the sun's corona
- 10. A model of the universe in which Earth is at the center of the revolving planets and stars
- 15. The tendency of an object to resist any change in its motion
- 16. The study of the moon, stars, and other objects in space
- 18. The outer most layer of the sun's interior
- 20. A model at the solar system in which Earth and the other planets revolve around the sun
- 21. A dark area of gas on the sun's surface that occurs when the loop in sunspot regions suddenly connect
- 23. The force that pull objects toward each other
- 24. An enormously bright, distant galaxy with a giant black hole in its center
Down
- 1. All of space and everything in it
- 3. An object whose gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape
- 4. An imaginary pattern in the sky
- 5. A huge, reddish loop of gas that protrudes from the sun's surface linking parts of sunspot regions
- 6. The spinning motion of a planet on its axis
- 11. The blue-whitish core of a star that is left behind after its other layers have expanded and drifted out into space
- 12. One of the small asteroid-like bodies that formed the building blocks of the planets
- 13. Matter that does not give off electromagnetic radiation but is quite abundant in the universe
- 14. The small, dense remains of a high-mass star after a supernova
- 17. The central region of the sun, where nuclear fusion takes place
- 19. A contracting cloud of gas and dust with enough mass to form a star
- 22. A large cloud of gas and dust in space
- 23. A huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas bound together by gravity
