Across
- 2. The event from where all stars (and everything else) came from.
- 8. It consists of 12 signs—Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces—based on the sun's position at birth.
- 9. An extremely dense remnant left after a supernova.
- 11. A type of astronomical body orbiting the Sun.
- 12. A recognizable pattern of stars in the night sky.
- 14. A massive, energetic explosion of a star.
- 15. The gravitationally curved trajectory of an object, such as the trajectory of a planet moving around a star.
- 16. The entirety of space and time and their contents, including galaxies, stars, planets, all other forms of matter and energy.
- 17. A small star.
- 19. A device used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.
- 20. An occultation of the Sun by the Earth's Moon, in which a portion of the Earth passes through the shadow cast by the Moon, temporarily blocking sunlight, fully or partially.
- 21. The barred spiral galaxy that includes the Earth's Solar System.
- 22. Of or relating to the a Moon.
- 23. A region where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape.
- 24. How long it takes us to orbit our star
Down
- 1. A massive explosion that occurs when a high-mass star dies.
- 3. A large, gravitationally bound system of stars, stellar remnants, interstellar gas, dust, and dark matter, each of which orbits a center of mass.
- 4. The vast, nearly empty expanse that exists beyond the Earth and between all celestial bodies.
- 5. The distance light travels in one year (approx. 9.46 trillion km).
- 6. The solid, rocky body that orbits the Earth as its only natural satellite,
- 7. The gravitationally bound planetary system of the Earth's Sun and all of the objects that orbit it.
- 10. a small body in outer space, ranging in size from grains to objects up to one meter wide.
- 13. The closest star to us.
- 14. A massive, luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its own gravity.
- 18. The study of stars.
