Across
- 4. a huge collection of stars, gas and dust
- 7. a large sphere of hydrogen gas, held together by gravity that is hot enough for nuclear reactions to occur in its core
- 8. a meteoroid that strikes a planet or a man
- 9. regions of strong magnetic activity
- 12. a small rocky mineral that moves through space
- 13. a cloud of gas or dust
- 14. the orange-red layer above the photosphere of a star
Down
- 1. a wide outermost layer of a stars atmosphere
- 2. the distant light travels in one year
- 3. an instrument that spreads light into different wavelengths
- 5. a small rocky object that orbits the sun
- 6. the apparent surface of a star
- 10. a small rocky and icy object that orbits the sun
- 11. two fixed points called foci
- 12. a meteoroid that has entered earths atmosphere