Across
- 3. Occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth
- 4. the theory that the universe originated 20 billion years ago from the cataclysmic explosion of a small mass of matter at extremely high density and temperature
- 5. a ball of frozen dust and rock that orbits the sun and has a tail that glows
- 6. the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when earth is directly between the sun and the moon
- 9. A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky
- 11. a cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere
- 12. A streak of light in the sky produced by the burning of a meteoroid in Earth's atmosphere.
- 13. spinning of Earth on its imaginary axis, which takes about 24 hours to complete and causes day and night to occur
Down
- 1. New Moon, Waxing Crescent, First Quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, Third Quarter, Waning Crescent
- 2. A large group of stars, nebulas, gases, dust particles and planets held together by gravity.
- 7. Earth's yearly orbit around the Sun
- 8. a region of space resulting from the collapse of a star
- 10. a piece of rock or metal made up of material similar to that which formed the planets; mostly found in the asteroid belt between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter