Across
- 3. the burning up of a chunk of rock and metal pulled into the atmosphere
- 5. planet with a large hurricane called the Great Red Spot
- 6. planet with water and one moon
- 8. what causes the seasons on earth
- 10. how the sun makes its energy
- 14. paths that planets travel in
- 18. the study of everything beyond the Earth
- 19. the sun combines two of these atoms
- 23. another name for the inner planets
- 27. huge collection of gas, dust and hundreds of billions of stars and planets
- 30. any object that exists in space
- 32. Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake and Eris are all
- 33. name of our galaxy
- 34. small rocky objects found in the solar system
- 36. when the moon is not out
- 39. what makes a comets tail take its shape
- 40. another name for the outer planets
- 41. a stars luminosity depends on this
- 42. the sun forms these atoms
- 43. dwarf planet located in the asteroid belt
Down
- 1. planet with over 1000 rings
- 2. chunk of frozen material travelling in large orbits around the Sun
- 3. chunk of rock and metal pulled down through the atmosphere
- 4. which stars live longer, smaller or larger?
- 7. astronomical event when the earth blocks out the moon
- 9. planet with no atmosphere but that has craters
- 11. group of stars forming a picture
- 12. the core of smaller red supergiants organize into this after a supernova
- 13. astonomical event when the moon blocks out the sun
- 15. shape of our galaxy
- 16. time it takes for a planet to rotate once on its axis
- 17. number of planets as of 2006
- 20. planet that rotates on its side
- 21. time it takes for a planet to do one full revolution around the sun
- 22. what a star is born from
- 24. at the center of our solar system
- 25. our sun is this colour star
- 26. which star is hotter, white dwarfs or supergiants?
- 28. when the chunk of rock and metal hits the earth
- 29. everything that exists including energy, matter and space
- 31. number of stars in our solar system
- 35. large object that emits a huge amount of energy
- 37. what causes gases and dust to organize themselves into clumps
- 38. large red supergiants form into this after a supernova
- 39. another name for a moon