The Solar System & Normal and Active Galaxies

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Across
  1. 2. Which planet is famous for its great dark spot and white storms?
  2. 4. What is the name for the extremely bright and energetic active galactic nuclei that emit intense radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum?
  3. 7. Which planet is known for its prominent ring system?
  4. 10. What is the name for the strong, narrow emission lines observed in certain active galaxies?
  5. 13. Which galaxy is the closest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way?
  6. 14. What is the name for the group of galaxies that includes the Milky Way and its neighboring galaxies?
  7. 19. Which type of galaxy has a bright central nucleus and a smooth appearance?
  8. 21. What is the name of the area surrounding a black hole where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape?
  9. 23. Which planet has the highest average surface temperature in our solar system?
  10. 26. Which type of galaxy has a round or oval shape and lacks prominent spiral arms?
  11. 27. What is the name for the process by which galaxies collide and merge together?
  12. 28. What is the only planet in the solar system known to support life?
  13. 30. Which small solar system body is primarily made up of ice, dust, and rocky debris and typically orbits the Sun in the same region as comets?
Down
  1. 1. Which type of galaxy has spiral arms and a rotating disk shape?
  2. 3. A group of billions of stars and their planets, gas and stars that extends over thousands of light-years.
  3. 5. The type that has the largest central bulge and tightly bound spiral arms.
  4. 6. Which planet is known for its massive storm called the Great Red Spot?
  5. 8. a cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch
  6. 9. Which spacecraft was launched by NASA in 1977 and has now left the solar system?
  7. 11. What is the name of the spacecraft that orbited Jupiter and its moons from 1995 to 2003?
  8. 12. What is the name of the belt region beyond Neptune that contains icy bodies and dwarf planets?
  9. 15. The small rocky body that orbits the Sun and produces a tail of gas and dust.
  10. 16. Which type of galaxy is a hybrid of spiral and elliptical galaxies?
  11. 17. Which planet is often referred to as the "Giant Ice Planet"?
  12. 18. Which natural satellite of Earth is responsible for the ocean tides?
  13. 20. Which galaxy is home to our solar system?
  14. 22. the phenomenon where a total or partial obscuration of the Sun occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth?
  15. 24. Which type of galaxy is classified as a small, compact, and low-luminosity galaxy?
  16. 25. What is the largest moon in the solar system and orbits Saturn?
  17. 29. The man who stated "The further away a galaxy is, the grater its redshift".