Across
- 3. largest planet in our soloar system
- 4. A group of stars, gas and dust held together by gravity.
- 7. The path one object takes around another.
- 9. Any small object in Outer Space, such as dust or a rock.
- 10. Year The distance which a ray of light would travel in one year. This is about 6,000,000,000,000 (6 trillion) miles.
- 12. When our view of one object in the sky is blocked by either another object or the Earth's shadow.
- 13. A small, frozen mass of dust and gas revolving around the sun.
Down
- 1. A small object orbiting a larger one. There are many electronic objects that orbit the Earth.
- 2. you can see it during the day sometimes
- 5. An object from Outer Space, such as a rock, that falls into the Earth and lands on its surface.
- 6. A star which suddenly flares up to many times its original brightness before fading again.
- 8. star A light in the atmosphere caused by a meteor falling towards the Earth.
- 9. Way Our Galaxy. (The word "Galaxy" actually means milky way in Greek).
- 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.