Across
- 1. An imaginary line about which a body rotates.
- 3. a coherent, typically large body of matter with no definite shape
- 6. Fixed luminous point in the night sky, large like the sun.
- 8. All existing matter and space considered as a whole.
- 9. he curved path of a celestial object or spacecraft around a star, planet, or moon, especially a periodic elliptical revolution.
- 10. a celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
Down
- 1. Study of space
- 2. an object in space that orbits or circles around a bigger object
- 4. celestial body moving in an elliptical orbit around a star.
- 5. the natural satellite of the earth, visible (chiefly at night) by reflected light from the sun.
- 7. an optical instrument designed to make distant objects appear nearer