Across
- 4. the study of God's creation beyond the atmosphere
- 6. the two points on the ecliptic at which the sun is farthest from the celestial equator
- 7. telescope that uses a series of lenses to produce an image
- 9. scientific law that states that the planets' orbits are ellipses
- 12. the idea that the planets, including Earth, orbit the sun
- 13. a Hertzsprung-Russell diagram is a two-dimensional graph that compares stars by their brightness and :?
Down
- 1. unit of measurement approximately equal to the distance between the sun and the earth
- 2. a planet's farthest distance from the sun
- 3. The equation of time is the relationship between apparent solar time and ?
- 5. largest planet in our solar system
- 8. type of orbit in which a satellite stays above the same point on the earth's surface
- 10. includes the star Regulus
- 11. the first person to travel in space
