Across
- 3. The appearance that objects in the night sky move against the typical direction of motion
- 4. A very small star with low temperature, reddish in color.
- 6. A celestial body of hot gases that radiates energy derived from thermonuclear reactions in the interior.
- 7. The two days of the year on which neither hemisphere is tilted toward or away from the sun.
- 8. A pattern of stars in the sky
- 10. A system of millions or billions of stars, together with gas and dust, held together by gravitational attraction.
- 12. A star that has collapsed under its own gravity
- 13. A piece of interplanetary material that falls toward Earth and enters its atmosphere.
- 14. The presumed final stage of a white dwarf
Down
- 1. The distance that light travels in one year.
- 2. The explosion of a dying giant or supergiant star.
- 5. The study of the moon, stars and other objects in space.
- 9. Occurs whenever the Moon passes behind Earth in relation to the sun.
- 10. The attractive force between two objects; the amount of force depends on their masses and the distance between them.
- 11. A small rocky body orbiting the sun
