Across
- 2. any large heavenly body that orbits a star (as the sun)
- 4. the configuration of stars, especially at one's birth
- 7. a small body of matter from outer space that enters the earth's atmosphere, becoming incandescent as a result of friction and appearing as a streak of light
- 9. a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year
Down
- 1. a heavenly body with such strong gravity that light cannot escape it and that is thought to be caused by the collapse of a massive star
- 3. the remains of something that has been destroyed
- 5. one of thousands of rocky objects that move in orbits mostly orbiting the sun
- 6. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust
- 8. there are numerous out there, those very large groups of stars that make up the universe