Across
- 3. an icy, small Solar System body that warms and begins to release gases when passing close to the Sun
- 5. everything. It includes all of space, and all the water and energy that space contains
- 6. the way astronomers explain the universe began
- 9. a dying star
- 12. small particles of matter floating through space that are believed to make up all matter in universe
- 13. a regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
- 14. a large body of matter in orbit around the sun or a star and thought to be developing into a planet
- 15. hard, dark, grey metal
Down
- 1. the natural satellite of the earth
- 2. an enormous cloud of dust where new stars are born
- 4. ancient planet in the early solar system that collided with the earth 4.5 billion years ago
- 7. the force that attracts a body towards the centre of the earth, or towards any other physical body having mass
- 8. a small rocky body orbiting the sun
- 10. a huge collection of gas, dust, and billion of stars and their solar systems, all held together by gravity
- 11. a natural luminous body visible in the night sky
- 14. any large sphere shaped bodies that orbit around a sun
