Astronomy Crossword Puzzles

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

the moment when a rocket begins its ascent from the launch pad, the process of collecting and transmitting data from a spacecraft to earth, the …

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

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 …

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

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 …

_ 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 _ , …

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 …

_ 11 was the first manned spacecraft to land on the moon, apollo 11 had 2 separate _ , how many astronauts were on board?, the service module pilot …

the sun and all the planets, moons, and other objects that orbit it, the scientific explanation for how the universe began with a massive explosion, …

us space traveler, russian space traveler, russian space program, us space program, father of us manned space program, russian satellite, chinese …

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 …

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

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 …

only star in the solar system, large mass of very hot gas, number of lunar months, minor bodies of ice, dust and rock, planet can be seen from earth, …

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 blue …

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 …

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 …

the cloud of dust and gas that the solar system came from, the space a object takes up, the closest star to the solar system besides the sun, the …

things in motion tend to stay in motion, it takes the earth a full year to do complete this motion, a shooting star headed towards the earth, …

the region surrounding earth where the magnetic field dominates the behavior of charged particles, deflecting them from the solar wind, the magnetic …

point in the path of the sun when the sun is farthest north or south of the equator, small body of matter in the solar system seen when it falls into …

the moon block the light from the sun reaching the earth (order s.m.e.), the earth block the light from the sun reaching the moon (order s.e.m.), the …

moon landing mission, probe exploring the outer solar system, space telescope for deep-space imaging, space shuttle disaster mission, rover on mars, …

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 held …

growth in size or increase in amount, the name given to the first four outer planets: jupiter, saturn, uranus, and neptune, uranus, neptune (frozen …

an event in which the shadow of one celestial falls on another, a natural or artificial body that revolves around a planet, the change in the sunlit …

_ disk - diffuse material orbiting around a central body such as a protostar, a young star, a neutron star or a black hole. , a measure of the amount …

of or relating to the stars, everything that exists, including objects and energy, throughout time and space, a blocking of the sun's light that …

what word did neil armstrong describe the surface of the moon with?, how many days did apollo 11 take to get to the moon?, where did neil armstrong go …