Across
- 2. planet that orbits a star outside the solar system.
- 6. A space rock or particle that burns up and creates a streak of light as it enters Earth's atmosphere.
- 7. - ball of ice and rock that orbits the Sun
- 9. obscuring of the light from one celestial body by the passage of another between it and the observer or between it and its source of illumination.
- 12. - ball of hot gas that makes its own light and energy
- 13. : the universal force of attraction acting between all bodies of matter.
- 14. A huge cloud of gas and dust in space, often where new stars are born.
- 15. - ball of ice and rock that orbits the Sun
- 17. imaginary line about which a body rotates.
- 19. Related to the Sun, often describing anything powered by or associated with sunlight.
- 20. action of rotating about an axis or center.
Down
- 1. - piece of rock or metal from space that survives its passage through Earth's atmosphere
- 3. envelope of gasses surrounding the earth or another planet.
- 4. small body moving in the solar system that would become a meteor if it entered the earth's atmosphere.
- 5. A natural satellite that orbits a planet, like Earth’s own Moon.
- 8. - rocky object that orbits the Sun
- 10. - round object in space that orbits a star and has cleared its path of other debris
- 11. A massive system of stars, planets, gas, and dust held together by gravity, like the Milky Way.
- 16. An object that orbits a planet or star, either naturally like a moon or artificially like a space probe.
- 18. forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favor of a new system.
