Astronomy Crossword Puzzles

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, …

when the star burns the last of its fuel, our sun is this type of star, when the stars neutrons are smashed together, the stage when the super nova …

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 …

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 …

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, _ …

greek philosopher that believed in the geocentric model of the solar system, egyptian mathematician, astronomer, and geographer who wrote the …

who are known for their knowledge in astronomy, device used for seeing faraway objects, written document used to represent the positions and movements …

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 …

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

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 …

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 …

_ 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 _ , …

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

distance light can travel in a year, result of 2 objects rubbing together causing a slowing down, unit used to measure distance in space, branch of …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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

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

a set that includes a star and all of the matter that orbits it, including planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and other objects, rocks floating around …

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