Across
- 4. The force that attracts a body toward the center of the earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
- 6. The practice or science of collecting and analyzing numerical data in large quantities, especially for the purpose of inferring proportions in a whole from those in a representative sample.
- 8. The study of objects and matter outside the earth's atmosphere and of their physical and chemical properties.
- 11. An immense explosion of a massive star.
- 12. The small rocky celestial bodies found especially between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
Down
- 1. A celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
- 2. Any of the very large groups of stars and associated matter that are found throughout the universe; a star system.
- 3. Any one of the objects in space that are made of burning gas and that look like points of light in the night sky.
- 5. People that go to space for new discoveries; study planets, stars, and other celestial bodies.
- 7. any natural body outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Easy examples are the Moon, Sun, and the other planets.
- 9. The amount of matter or substance that makes up an object.
- 10. Newly visible star or nebula.