Solar System Crossword

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Across
  1. 2. dipper: big spoon in the sky
  2. 5. small and red
  3. 7. giant: when a star expands
  4. 9. way: the galaxy we are in
  5. 12. hot glowing sphere
  6. 15. the chemical element of atomic number 80
  7. 16. large snowball
  8. 19. big & blue
  9. 21. year: the distance a beam of light travels
  10. 22. a flytrap
Down
  1. 1. largest planet in our solar system
  2. 3. large group of stars, gas, and dust held by gravity
  3. 4. unit: the distance between the Sun and the Earth
  4. 6. not a planet or is it?
  5. 8. only planet with water that we know
  6. 10. 6th from the sun
  7. 11. Outermost layer of a star's atmosphere
  8. 13. was thought to be made of cheese
  9. 14. large cloud of dust and gas
  10. 17. discovered in 1846
  11. 18. tail: created by sun
  12. 20. center of our solar system