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Sun, Earth, Moon System crossword puzzle
Sun, Earth, Moon System

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 …

Earth & Space crossword puzzle
Earth & Space

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, …

Pluto crossword puzzle
Pluto

pluto is this type of planet, clyde tombaugh's job, pluto was discovered in nineteen _ , antonym of predictable, synonym for motivating, about _ …

Astronomy crossword puzzle
Astronomy

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 …

Space Physics crossword puzzle
Space Physics

a hypothesized for of energy, believed to be responsible for the universe's every increasing rate of expansion, a star formed from a cloud of dust and …

The Life Cycle of Stars crossword puzzle
The Life Cycle of Stars

a dying phase of a star, _ nebula, what fire does, a heavenly body that produces its own heat, what stars do when they go supernova, the most common …

The Solar System and the Moon crossword puzzle
The Solar System and the Moon

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, …

History of Solar System crossword puzzle
History of Solar System

sun centred universe, earth centred universe, proposed the earth centred universe, came up with a model of the universe that placed the sun at the …

Solar System Vocabulary crossword puzzle
Solar System Vocabulary

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

Earth, Moon and Sun crossword puzzle
Earth, Moon and Sun

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 …

Life Cycle of a Star crossword puzzle
Life Cycle of a Star

the explosive end of a super red giant, the amount of energy coming off the surface of a star, formed when hydrogen fusion begins and the energy in …

Moon Phases, Eclipses, and Tides crossword puzzle
Moon Phases, Eclipses, and Tides

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 …

History of Astronomy crossword puzzle
History of Astronomy

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

Stars and Galaxies crossword puzzle
Stars and Galaxies

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 the …

Gravity and Space crossword puzzle
Gravity and Space

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 …

Arrangement of Stars crossword puzzle
Arrangement of Stars

a group of stars that forms a particular shape in the sky, is one of the famous constellations called "big bear", it also can be seen all …

Asteroids, Meteors and Comets crossword puzzle
Asteroids, Meteors and Comets

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 …

Galaxies crossword puzzle
Galaxies

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

Introduction to Astrophysics crossword puzzle
Introduction to Astrophysics

a celestial body in orbit around a star, with a near-spherical shape, the planet named after the roman god of travel, an object in orbit of a …

Universe and Electromagnetic Spectrum crossword puzzle
Universe and Electromagnetic Spectrum

the rate or number of crests of a wave that move past a given point in a given unit of time, all of time and space and its contents. includes, …

Planets and History of Astronomy crossword puzzle
Planets and History of Astronomy

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 …

Introducing the Solar System crossword puzzle
Introducing the Solar System

_ 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 _ , …

Stars crossword puzzle
Stars

a region of space having a gravitational field so intense that no matter or radiation can escape, the displacement of spectral lines toward longer …

Astronomy - The Planets crossword puzzle
Astronomy - The Planets

the largest planet, smallest planet, blue gas giant, home of the giant red spot, share orbit with jupiter, evening star, home of crushing atmosphere, …

The Universe crossword puzzle
The Universe

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 …

Universe crossword puzzle
Universe

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 Origin of the Universe crossword puzzle
The Origin of the Universe

event that serves as the foundation for the theory of our universe's origin (7), they appear to be moving away from each other, supporting the big …

Rockets crossword puzzle
Rockets

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 …

Planets in Our Galaxy crossword puzzle
Planets in Our Galaxy

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, …

Types of Stars crossword puzzle
Types of Stars

has a mass of only between 1.35 and about 2.1 times that of our sun, it is 60,000 times smaller than the sun, "failed stars", which form …