Across
- 4. A moon, planet or machine that orbits a planet or star.
- 5. A cloud of interstellar gas and dust, or a Marvel character.
- 8. A small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, often appearing as a streak of light.
- 9. When the light of the sun is blocked out by the moon.
- 11. All physical things are made up of this.
- 12. Ours is called The Mily Way.
- 13. System A group of planets circling a star.
- 14. What is the name of Earth's only natural satellite.
- 16. A minor planet—an object that is neither a true planet nor a comet—that orbits within the inner Solar System.
- 17. A celestial body moving in the sky, as distinguished from a fixed star.
Down
- 1. A grouping of stars that makes up an image, to which definite names have been given.
- 2. Space The expanse that exists beyond Earth and its atmosphere and between celestial bodies.
- 3. What is the Sun?
- 6. All of space and time and their contents.
- 7. A rock that falls to Earth from space.
- 10. Cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.
- 12. The force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
- 15. Organization that flies us to Outer Space.