Across
- 2. is a huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity.
- 3. a large barred spiral galaxy
- 5. large natural objects that orbit, or travel around, stars.
- 8. a mass of distant stars appearing as tiny particles of dust.
- 9. the large round object that circles the Earth and that shines at night by reflecting light from the sun.
- 10. are lumps of rock or iron that orbit the sun.
Down
- 1. place in space where gravity pulls so much that even light can not get out.
- 4. star around which Earth and the other components of the solar system revolve
- 6. small rocky objects that orbit the Sun.
- 7. It includes all of space, and all the matter and energy that space contains.