Across
- 4. basic units of matter that every solid, liquid, gas, and plasma is composed of
- 5. star a system of two stars that revolve around each other or both revolve around a common centre
- 6. the area of gas and air that envelops out earth
- 7. matter particles thought to exist in space that don’t absorb, reflect, or emit light and thus can’t be observed
- 8. bang the main theory explaining how the universe started. It states that 13.8 billion years ago, space expanded quickly to form the atoms would form stars and galaxies
Down
- 1. star sailor
- 2. a scientist that studies the universe
- 3. a small icy object that orbits the sun and has a long “tail” of gas
- 4. belt the region between Jupiter and mars that contains the largest population of asteroids in our solar system
- 5. dwarf a star that’s exhausted from its own supply of carbon and burnt out