Across
- 1. large system of stars held together by mutual gravitation and isolated from similar systems by vast regions of space.
- 5. regions of cooler temperature on the sun
- 6. a steady stream of high-energy, very small units of matter from the sun into space
- 10. the sun, the planets and their moons and other objects that orbit the sun
- 12. a small rocky object orbiting the sun
- 13. a frozen chunk of ice and dust that orbits the sun
- 14. the movement of one object around another object
Down
- 2. scientists who study space
- 3. a large round object that circles around a planet
- 4. a path of an object in space around another object
- 7. the air or gases surrounding a planet
- 8. a large, round object in space that travels around a star
- 9. a fragment of space rock that enters the Earth's atmosphere
- 11. height above ground level
- 12. an imaginary line extending through Earth from the North Pole to the South Pole