Space Science

2. a round pit left behind on the surface of a planet or other body in space after a smaller object strikes the surface
3. everything—space and all the mater and energy in it
9. a space craft that is sent into a planet’s atmosphere or onto a solid surface
10. the sun, the planets, moons, and other objects
11. a satellite in which people can live and work for long periods
12. This type of telescope has an objective lens, or curved piece of glass at one end of a long tube. The lens gathers light and focuses it to form an image near the other end of the tube. An eye piece magnifies this image.
14. a group of millions or billions of stars held together by their own gravity
15. the path of an object in space as it moves around another object because of gravity
16. This type of telescope has a curved mirror that gathers light. The image comes into focus in front of the mirror

1. a device that gathers visible light or another form of electromagnetic radiation
4. the range of colors that appears in a beam of visible light when it passes through a prism
5. energy that travels across the distance as certain types of waves
6. an object that orbits another massive object
7. the distance between one wave peak and the next wave peak
8. a group of stars that forms a pattern in the sky
13. a craft designed to land on a planet’s surface