STARS CROSSWORD PUZZLE 1

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Across
  1. 2. An object in space that’s natural and moves around a bigger object like a planet-that’s natural. Our earth has one moon.
  2. 3. The star in the middle of our solar system
  3. 7. Name for a meteoroid that has landed on a planet’s surface METEOROID - small chunk of rock floating in space
  4. 9. group of stars in the sky that form specific patterns from where you see them
  5. 11. FLARE Particles and energy that burst from the sun at once
  6. 13. Ring of icy objects, like Pluto, beyond Neptune’s orbit
  7. 15. Large group of stars held together by gravity
  8. 16. A star that gives off radio waves or other electromagnetic radiation
  9. 17. Streak of light formed when a meteoroid enters a planet’s atmosphere
Down
  1. 1. STAR A meteor
  2. 3. Bright explosion of a star
  3. 4. Another name for the North Star
  4. 5. DWARF What’s left after a star collapses in on itself
  5. 6. STAR star made out of uncharged nucleons, or the parts that make up a nucleus
  6. 7. WAY The galaxy we live in, that contains about 100 billion stars. Our Milky Way galaxy is so huge that light takes 100,000 years to travel from one end to the other.
  7. 8. Big shining burning ball of matter made mostly helium and hydrogen gases held together by its own gravity
  8. 9. a rock that’s icy and lets off dust and gas as it flies through space
  9. 10. The cloud of dust and gas you find between stars
  10. 12. Area in the middle of a big galaxy that surrounds a giant black hole
  11. 14. when any celestial object blocks the light of another celestial object