Space Culminating

2. The scientific name for The Northern Lights.
5. The unit of distance representing how far light travels in one year.
6. The form a small star takes after it uses up all of its hydrogen, essentially evaporating.
8. The much rarer opposite of a lunar eclipse, occurs when the shadow of the moon falls on earth’s surface.
10. After Pluto lost its planetary status, _______, one of the gas planets, became the outermost planet in our solar system.
11. Nicknamed the red planet, is also the only planet that we’ve ever sent space rovers to explore.
12. The form a large star takes when it expands due to elements in its core forming by fusion.
14. The event that scientists believe rendered the universe from a very hot and dense state to what it is today, essentially creating the universe.

1. A celestial object that generally comes from the Kuiper Belt or the Oort Cloud, consisting of dust and ice and eventually forming a gas tail when it nears the sun.
3. Our _____ ______ is the group of planets (including earth), that circles the sun.
4. The form a medium star takes after its core contracts, causing its outer layers to expand, cool down and take on a red colour.
7. A meteoroid that manages to pass through earth’s atmosphere and reach earth’s surface without completely burning up is called a _______.
9. The second largest planet in our solar system, known for its distinctive rings.
13. The Milky Way is the _______ that contains our solar system as well as dust, gas and stars and is held together by gravity.