Across
- 3. Rapidly spinning neutron star emitting beams of radiation
- 4. Icy body from outer solar system, creates a glowing tail
- 8. Force that attracts objects toward one another in space
- 9. Darkest part of a shadow during an eclipse
- 10. Shift in light wavelength, indicating an object moving away
- 11. Natural light display near polar regions, often green or red
- 15. Instrument for observing distant objects in space
- 17. Group of stars forming a recognizable pattern
- 18. Point in the sky directly above an observer
- 19. Streak of light from a small space rock burning in the atmosphere
- 21. Rocky object, smaller than planets, often found in a belt
- 23. Cloud of gas and dust, birthplace of stars
- 25. Vast collection of stars, gas, and dust bound by gravity
- 27. Time when the Sun is at its highest or lowest point
- 28. When one celestial body blocks the light of another
- 29. Object that orbits a planet, can be natural or artificial
Down
- 1. Another term for the universe, all of space and time
- 2. Path taken by a celestial object around a star or planet
- 5. Type of neutron star with an extremely strong magnetic field
- 6. Unseen mass thought to make up much of the universe
- 7. Extremely luminous object powered by a supermassive black hole
- 12. Depression on a planet or moon surface, often from an impact
- 13. Related to the sky or space beyond Earth's atmosphere
- 14. Outer atmosphere of the Sun, visible during an eclipse
- 16. Particle representing a quantum of light
- 20. Stellar explosion that occurs at the end of a star's life
- 22. Planet outside our solar system orbiting another star
- 24. Point when day and night are of equal length
- 26. Body orbiting a star, like Earth in the solar system
- 27. Range of wavelengths of light from an astronomical object