Astronomy Vocab Crossword
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
                              
 
 
Down: 1) one of the different apparent shapes of the moon as seen from Earth 3) The partial or total blocking of one object in space by another4)  the darkest part of a shadow5) The part of a shadow surrounding the darkest part.7) A huge group of single stars, star systems, star clusters, dust, and gas, bound together by gravity. 8) A large, round, densely-packed grouping of older stars 11) a unit to measure distance within the solar system are so large that they cannot be easily measured in meters or kilometers. 12) A star system with two stars13) An enormously bright, distant galaxy with a giant black hole at its center 15) The tendency of an object to resist a change in motion 16) is an object that orbits the sun and has enough gravity to be spherical but has not cleared the area of its orbit19) consists of the sun, the planets, their moons and a variety of smaller objects22) the force of gravity on an object Across: 2) must be round, orbit the sun, and have cleared out the region of the solar system along its orbit 6) A force is anything that changes an object's properties, such as speed, mass, momentum, etc.9) The blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon10) the amount of matter in an object14) is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. The force of gravity keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun. 17) A galaxy that does not have a regular shape. 18) A galaxy with a bulge in the middle and arms that spiral outward in a pinwheel pattern. 20) The blocking of sunlight to earth that occurs when the moon is directly between the sun and earth. 21) A galaxy shaped like a round or flattened ball generally containing only old stars. 23) says that an object at rest will stay at rest and an object in motion will stay in motion with a constant speed and direction unless acted on by a force.
 

 

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