Across
- 2. is the second planet from the sun
- 3. known as the the red planet
- 8. looks like a ribbon of glowing gases that leaps out of the chromosphere and into the corona
- 9. the path an object takes as it revolves around a star, planet, or moon
- 10. the sun's innermost layer which gives off the light and energy you see
- 13. a group of stars that forms a pattern
- 14. it was recently changed to dwarf planet
- 15. the largest in our solar system
Down
- 1. most asteroids orbit this region between Mars and Jupiter
- 4. the seventh planet from the sun
- 5. is the closest planet to the sun
- 6. the imaginary line around which the Earth spins or rotates
- 7. often referred to as shooting stars
- 11. the eigth planet from the sun
- 12. frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the sun