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