Across
- 2. Streak of light from a space rock in Earth’s atmosphere
- 3. Cloud of gas and dust where stars form
- 6. Icy body that forms a glowing tail near the Sun
- 8. Curved path one object follows around another
- 10. The entire universe as an ordered system
- 12. Rocky object orbiting the Sun
- 13. Huge system of stars, gas, and dust
Down
- 1. Instrument used to observe distant space objects
- 4. A scientist who studies space
- 5. The point in the sky directly overhead
- 7. Force that attracts objects with mass
- 9. When one celestial body blocks another
- 11. The galaxy that contains our solar system