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Across
  1. 3. you can see it during the day sometimes
  2. 6. Way Our Galaxy. (The word "Galaxy" actually means milky way in Greek).
  3. 7. The path one object takes around another.
  4. 9. a planet
  5. 11. hole A region of space around a very small and extremely massive object within which the gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape.
  6. 13. A small object orbiting a larger one. There are many electronic objects that orbit the Earth.
  7. 14. Any small object in Outer Space, such as dust or a rock.
  8. 16. Year The distance which a ray of light would travel in one year. This is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles.
  9. 18. largest planet in our soloar system
Down
  1. 1. ninth planet
  2. 2. A small, frozen mass of dust and gas revolving around the sun.
  3. 4. An object from Outer Space, such as a rock, that falls into the Earth and lands on its surface.
  4. 5. sits next to saturn
  5. 8. A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
  6. 9. star A light in the atmosphere caused by a meteor falling towards the Earth.
  7. 10. A star which suddenly flares up to many times its original brightness before fading again.
  8. 12. a small planet
  9. 15. When our view of one object in the sky is blocked by either another object or the Earth's shadow.
  10. 17. thet closets planet to the sun