Sky Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. A large collection of closely grouped stars.
  2. 4. A rock from space that fall into the Earth's atmosphere.
  3. 6. The motion of a planet, moon, or star about its axis.
  4. 7. When the Moon passes directly between the Sun and the Earth. (2 words)
  5. 8. A large round natural satellite circling a star.
  6. 11. When the Earth blocks sunlight from reaching the moon. (2 words)
  7. 12. The Sun and all the bodies that orbit around it. (2 words)
  8. 14. The path of a planet or other heavenly body as it revolves around another body in space.
  9. 15. Chunks of rock that vary in size and orbit the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
  10. 16. A ball of ice, dust, rock, and gasses that orbit the sun in a long narrow path.
  11. 17. An imaginary straight line through a planet or other object that the object seems to rotate around.
  12. 18. A large ball of very hot gasses emitting light, heat, and radiation
Down
  1. 2. A collection of gasses around a planet.
  2. 3. Everything that exists.
  3. 5. Group of bright stars named for the patterns they show in the sky.
  4. 9. One complete journey of a planet around a star, or a moon around a planet.
  5. 10. Send out light or other energy.
  6. 13. The part of a “shooting star” that survives to reach the ground.