Across
- 3. A supermassive black hole gorging on gas at the center of a distant galaxy.
- 5. distance from Earth to the Sun slightly less than 93 million miles 150 million kilometers
- 6. Two stars that lie very close to, and are often orbiting, each other. Line-of-sight doubles are a consequence of perspective and aren’t physically related
Down
- 1. The changing illumination of the Moon (or other body) over time. The Moon waxes, growing more illuminated, between its new and full phases, and wanes, becoming less illuminated
- 2. A vast collection of stars, gas, and dust, typically 10,000 to 100,000 light-years in diameter and containing billions of stars
- 4. A solid body orbiting the Sun that consists of metal and rock. Most are only a few miles in diameter and are found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter