Across
- 4. huge collection of stars held together by gravity
- 6. luminous balls of gas that look like a bright light
- 7. small rock orbiting the sun
- 8. Instrument used to view distant objects
- 10. Type of galaxy that has a spiral pattern
- 12. a astronomical distance to the distance that light travels in one year
- 13. a star ending its life in a huge explosion'
- 15. a space where gravity pulls so much light cant get out
Down
- 1. Astronomer with a telescope named after him
- 2. event that occurs when the moons shadow falls upon earth
- 3. a distinctive pattern of starts used to organize a part of the sky
- 5. a celestial body in orbit of the sun (8 of them)
- 9. Type of galaxy that has no spiral arms
- 11. Type of galaxy that is oddly shaped
- 14. someone who studies space