SPACE RACE

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Across
  1. 3. a spiral island of stars in space. Our _____ is the milky way
  2. 4. the second full moon of the same month
  3. 5. a large ball of ice dust and gas that orbits the sun
  4. 6. an imaginary line an object rotates around
  5. 8. a gaseous body that produces its own energy then releases it as heat and light
  6. 9. the study of the universe
  7. 11. two types solar or lunar
  8. 12. to send or to give off
Down
  1. 1. large bodies the rotate around the sun. the REFLECT light
  2. 2. the distance light takes to travel in one year
  3. 4. an intense gravitational field created when a star runs out of fuel
  4. 7. the force that pulls us down when we are in the air
  5. 8. the closest star to the earth
  6. 10. the time it takes for a planet to go around the sun
  7. 13. the satellite that orbits the sun