space crossword

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Across
  1. 2. Of, or relating to, the Sun
  2. 4. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
  3. 6. The fifth largest planet from the Sun and the largest in the Solar System
  4. 8. The farthest-known solar planet from the Sun
  5. 9. The galaxy that includes the Solar System
  6. 12. A scientist who studies the stars, planets, and other natural objects in space
  7. 15. A celestial body that orbits the sun and has a spherical shape, but is not large enough to disturb other objects from its orbit
  8. 16. The total or partial obscuring of one celestial body by another
  9. 17. American former astronaut, engineer, and fighter pilot who made three spacewalks
  10. 18. A regular, repeating path that one object in space takes around another one
  11. 19. A place where gravity has become so strong that nothing around it can escape, not even light
  12. 21. An astronaut of the Soviet or Russian space program
  13. 22. A group of stars in the sky that make up a certain pattern
Down
  1. 1. A space vehicle
  2. 3. A small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, much like a planet
  3. 4. The first person to walk on the moon
  4. 5. 186,282 miles per second
  5. 7. The whole of all matter, energy, planets, galaxies, and space
  6. 10. The first Indian-born woman in space
  7. 11. A place equipped for observation of natural phenomena
  8. 13. An American engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut who became the first black woman in space
  9. 14. A giant cloud of dust and gas in space
  10. 20. A point in the year when day and night are equally as long