Space

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Across
  1. 2. Tool used to magnify and view distant objects in space.
  2. 4. Word used to describe the brightness of stars.
  3. 7. A configuration of stars that form patters in the sky.
  4. 11. The star located at the centre of our galaxy, the point that our planets revolve around.
  5. 12. The galaxy that we live in, containing planets such as Earth, Mars, Uranus, etc.
  6. 13. Explosion where a stars outer portion gets blown off.
  7. 14. Study of everything within the physical universe.
  8. 15. Particles that cannot be seen, have no reactivity with light.
  9. 17. An area with such intense gravitational pull that even light cannot escape.
Down
  1. 1. A group of stars that allow astronomers to study the age/evolution of stars.
  2. 3. An imaginary rotating sphere where all of the night sky’s objects sit
  3. 5. Universal force of attraction for all matter.
  4. 6. A vast collection of gasses, dust, stars and other interstellar matter gravitationally bound together.
  5. 7. (Abbr.) Radiation left after the Big Bang.
  6. 8. Everything, the space in which, matter, energy, planets, life, stars and more exist.
  7. 9. The theory of how the universe began, involving the rapid growth of something small.
  8. 10. Unit of distance, measures how far light moves in an Earth year
  9. 11. A sphere of gas held together by its own gravity, consisting mostly of hydrogen and helium.
  10. 16. A large mass that orbits a planet, or other objects that are not stars.