Astronomy Crossword Puzzles

another word for moon orbiting a planet, the spinning of a planet on its axis, axis tilted on its side, the largest planet, planets made mostly of …

this is dark during a lunar eclipse, getting smaller, the moon takes 27 days to _ around the earth, the quarter of the moon when it is light on the …

a person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft, this dwarf planet was previously a part of our solar system, the name of an object used to help us …

_ is a gas giant planet that is smaller than jupiter but larger than neptune, all but two planets in the solar system have a natural satellite, or _ , …

greek for light, constellation that means bull, visible layer of sun during an eclipse, the dog star, constellation that means hunter, center of the …

an object that has gravity so strong that even light can't escape it, a group of millions or billions of stars and planetary systems which are …

this causes the light emitted by a meteor, comets in the kuiper belt circle the sun in the same _ as our planets, the part of a comet made of water …

object is furthest from the sun, a cloud of dust and gas, a large collection of stars, gas, and dust that is held together by gravity, the inward …

earth's only natural satellite, the force that holds stars in a galaxy together, the time it takes light to reach earth from the sun, a measure …

known as the red planet, the inner planets are also known as _ planets, the second largest planet in the solar system, envelope of gases surrounding …

earth's _ is rich in nitrogen and oxygen and it is the only world known to harbor life, _ , our home planet, is the third planet from the sun, _ …

everything that exists, including all space, matter, and energy, a massive system of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter held together by gravity, the …

a rock from space that survives its fiery descent to earth, an icy traveler that grows a glowing tail near the sun, a prediction or forecast, once …

the furthest planet from the sun, our galaxy name, it takes 28 day to go round the earth, the planet with visible rings, this gives neptune it's …

when the moon fully blocks the sun, the amount of time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun, when the moon is fully illuminated, the …

a graph that plots stars organized by luminosity and by their temperature, a sphere made up of extremely hot gases, a cloud of gas and dust in outer …

the lighter part of the shadow created by an eclipse, the first phase of the moon, it has no visible light, entire side of the moon is visible, when a …

the path an object takes as it moves around another object in space.crater : a bowl-shaped depression formed by the impact of a meteorite, the glowing …

this type of motion occurs when planets appear to "wander" through the sky, head librarian at alexandria; calculated the circumference of …

icy body of frozen gasses, rocks and dust leftover from the formation of the solar system, minor planet, the most abundant elements in the known …

branch of science which deals with celestial objects, the world beyond the kármán line, 62 miles up, should be worn at all times when viewing the …

of the three astronauts, whose spacesuit looked the most different, saturn v is this, mission control is in this city, the astronauts brought back _ …

a star located at the end of the handle of the little dipper, in the constellation ursa minor, northern hemisphere is tilted toward sun, one of the …

immense star systems held together by mutual gravity of its member stars, nebula that contains dust which scatters light enough to become visible, the …

spiral galaxies are usually the _ , the force holding a galaxy together, a spiral galaxy contains both _ and old stars, this galaxy has very little …

the closest galaxy to the earth, the strongest material in the known universe, the largest zodiac constellation, and the 2nd largest constellation …

outer layer and largest part of the sun's atmosphere, two or more stars revolving, explanation for the beginning of the universe, lowest layer of …

what planet has the diameter of 12,104 km, jupiter has 67 _ , what planet is 67.2 million miles from the sun, what planet has the diameter of 6787 km, …

the path an object takes as it moves around something, when a planet spins on its axis, a rock from space that burns in earth’s atmosphere, when one …

is called the "red planet" due to rust on its surface, rotates on its side, abbreviated am, planet with the most extreme temperature range, …