Across
- 1. Our galaxy that contains over 200 billion stars.
- 4. The force that pulls objects towards each other.
- 6. A place in space where the pull of gravity is so strong not even light can get out.
- 7. A small body of matter from outer space that enters Earth’s atmosphere and appears like a streak of light.
- 10. Small, rocky objects that orbit the Sun.
Down
- 2. A person trained to travel in a spacecraft.
- 3. The area of air and gas that envelopes the Earth and other astronomical objects.
- 5. A huge collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their solar systems held together by gravity.
- 8. When one celestial body blocks light from reaching another by moving between it and its light source.
- 9. objects made out of frozen gasses, rock and dust that orbit the sun.