Across
- 1. an icy, small Solar System body that, when passing close to the Sun, warms and begins to release gases
- 3. an object spinning on its own axis
- 5. the brightness of a celestial object
- 10. a point in space where gravity is so strong not even light can escape
- 12. a device created to give evidence to earths orbit
- 15. a point directly above
- 16. the concept/theory of the sun being the centre of the universe / solar system
- 18. every single object and chunk of matter combined
- 19. a system of millions or billions of stars combined with gas and dust held together with gravity
- 20. an object obscuring the light to / from another object
Down
- 1. a collection of stars forming an image
- 2. One of the two points within an ellipse whose distance apart determines the eccentricity of the ellipse
- 4. a telescope in space made to discover galaxies outside our own
- 6. a fixed luminous point in the sky
- 7. the theory that earth is the centre of the universe / solar system
- 8. a measure of how high up a certain point / object is
- 9. a fragment of spatial matter that falls to the surface of a planet.
- 11. the centre of the solar system
- 13. the man who made Hubble
- 14. a small rocky / metallic body in outer space
- 17. an objects rotation around another object in space