Space Crossword

3. Shaped like an oval or a flattened circle.
4. A reusable spacecraft designed to transport people and cargo to and from space.
5. A huge ball of burning gas (mostly hydrogen and helium) that produces its own light and heat.
9. Energy that travels through space as waves or particles, like light or heat.
12. A large, round object that orbits a star and has cleared its own path of debris.
13. The distance light travels in one year (about 9.5 trillion kilometres).
15. An imaginary line through the centre of an object (like Earth) around which it rotates.
17. A colourless, odourless gas found on some planets and moons (like Titan).
19. The branch of science that studies stars, planets, and space.
20. A regular or repeating way in which something happens or is arranged.
22. A small, rocky object that orbits the Sun, mostly found between Mars and Jupiter.
24. When one heavenly body moves into the shadow of another, blocking its light.

1. The force that pulls objects toward each other; it keeps planets in orbit.
2. A "dirty snowball" of ice and dust that develops a glowing tail when it gets close to the Sun.
4. An object that orbits a planet; can be natural (like the Moon) or man-made.
5. diagram: A drawing that shows a real object with its sizes reduced or enlarged by a specific amount (the scale).
6. The layer of gases surrounding a planet or moon.
7. The lightest and most abundant chemical element; it’s the main "fuel" for stars.
8. All of space, time, matter, and energy that exists.
10. A giant cloud of gas and dust in space, often where new stars are born.
11. The curved path an object takes around a star, planet, or moon.
14. A group of related objects or parts that work together (e.g., the Solar System).
16. A massive system of billions of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
17. A streak of light caused by a piece of space rock burning up in Earth’s atmosphere (a "shooting star").
18. A group of stars that forms a recognisable pattern or shape in the sky.
21. An unmanned spacecraft sent to explore and gather data from space.
23. dust: Tiny particles of matter floating in space.