Across
- 5. the distance light travels in a year through space
- 8. the invisible blanket of gas and air that surrounds earth
- 9. the tiniest thing that exists
- 11. a loop of fiery gas from the surface of the sun
- 15. dark spots that appear on the surface of the sun
- 16. an explosion of light and heat from the suns surface
- 19. anything that orbits around a planet
- 20. a pure substance that only has one type of atoms
- 21. a collection or group of stars, planets and space dust
- 22. to spin around
- 23. any man-made machine that travels to space
- 24. to grow bigger
Down
- 1. the idea of an explosion that astronomers believe created the universe
- 2. someone who travels into space
- 3. the distance across the center of a circle
- 4. a spacecraft controlled from earth
- 6. the galaxy that our planet and solar system are located in
- 7. a piece of space rock that lands on earth
- 10. a heater used to warm a whole building
- 12. a glass used to see in glasses and telescopes
- 13. a space rock floating in outer space
- 14. a ball of ice and space dust
- 17. when something is blurry or hard to see
- 18. when the light of the sun is blocked by the moon