SPACE

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