Across
- 5. What the moon is lacking.
- 7. Separates white light into wavelengths of colour.
- 8. When the moon comes between the earth and the sun.
- 10. The changing appearances of the moon.
- 11. Cloud of gas and dust.
- 14. What the universe is doing.
- 15. People who study objects in space.
- 16. 13.7 billion years ago, a tiny volume of space suddenly and rapidly expanded into an immense size.
- 18. Arms spiral out from the centre core.
- 20. When giant stars explode!
Down
- 1. A lot of matter in a little space; strong gravitational pull.
- 2. The understanding that the sun is the cener of the solar system.
- 3. The belief that the earth was the center of the universe.
- 4. All existing matter and space.
- 6. The sun, moon, planets and stars.
- 9. Football or cigar shaped.
- 12. When the earth comes between the moon and the sun.
- 13. Object in space made up of hot gases.
- 17. A system of millions of stars, gas and dust held together by gravitational attraction.
- 19. A celestial object blocks the normal view of another celestial object.