Across
- 10. - Type of planet Kepler helped find in habitable zones
- 11. - Region around a star where liquid water could exist
- 12. - Planets that orbit stars outside our solar system
- 14. - Acronym for the James Webb Space Telescope
- 15. - NASA space telescope that discovered thousands of exoplanets
- 16. - Metric showing how quickly new planets were found
- 18. - Technique used by JWST to analyze planet atmospheres
- 20. - Future tech to help telescopes block starlight and see planets
- 21. - Indicators in atmosphere that may suggest biological activity
- 22. - Instrument on Kepler that measured star brightness
Down
- 1. - Where Kepler’s mission data is stored and studied
- 2. - Another term for the habitable zone
- 3. - Star system with seven Earth-size planets
- 4. - Term used for exoplanets with possible habitability
- 5. - Layer of gases surrounding a planet, important for habitability
- 6. - Event that mimics a planetary transit but isn't a planet
- 7. - Collection of planets orbiting a single star
- 8. - Light wavelength range JWST is optimized to detect
- 9. - Nickname for astronomers searching for exoplanets
- 13. - A graph showing brightness changes over time
- 15. - Extended Kepler mission after initial hardware failure
- 17. - Term for when Kepler officially ran out of fuel and shut down
- 19. - Optical instrument used to observe distant objects
- 20. - Dense region of stars Kepler continuously observed
- 23. - Method Kepler used to detect planets by observing dips in starlight