Across
- 4. everything that exists in space
- 6. the distance light travels in one year
- 7. a powerful and luminous explosion of a star
- 9. the force that pulls objects towards each other
- 12. place in space where the gravity is so strong that not even light can escape
- 13. a group of stars that form a pattern
- 14. a regular and repeating circuit that one celestial object takes around another
- 15. a cloud of dust and gas in space
Down
- 1. main theory explaining how the universe started
- 2. an object intentionally placed into space to orbit a celestial body to collect information
- 3. a huge collection of gas, dust and billions of stars and their solar systems held together by gravity
- 5. the star that objects in our solar system orbit
- 8. the planet that we live on
- 10. a celestial object that orbits its sun
- 11. when one celestial body blocks light from reaching another by moving between it and its light source
