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iN st rUC tors PAge CLUES 1. A space rock orbiting the sun ...................... A S T E R O I D 2. The central part of a star or planet ............. C O R E 3. Path one object takes around another ...... O R B I T 4. An oval-shaped path is… ............................. E L L I P T I C A L 5. The stretching of objects in space into strings ....................................... S PAG H E T T I F I C AT I O N 6. A person who studies the universe .............. A S T R O N O M E R 7. The distance light travels in one year .......... L I G H T Y E A R 8. A ball of hot, bright gas................................. S TA R 9. All of space and everything it contains ...... U N I V E R S E 10. Of or like a star ............................................... S T E L L A R 11. A person who travels in space .................... A S T R O N AU T 12. When one celestial object hides ................ E C L I P S E another from view 13. A measure of brightness .............................. M AG N I T U D E 14. A layer of gas surrounding a planet........... AT M O S P H E R E 15. Thin, rocky layer covering a planet’s surface ......................................... C R U S T 16. One complete rotation on an axis ............. S P I N 17. Molten rock that flows ................................... L AVA 18. Hollow in the surface of a planet or moon ......................................... C R AT E R 19. Visible surface of a star................................. P H OTO S P H E R E 20. A force of attraction between objects ..... G R AV I T Y 21. The line around which a planet rotates ..... A X I S 22. An object held in orbit by gravity............... S AT E L L I T E 23. What surrounds Saturn ................................. R I N G S 24. The Sun’s superhot outer layer of gas ........ C O R O N A 25. A building that houses telescopes ............. O B S E R VATO R Y
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Beautiful cloud formation with a dying star at its center
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stars known to mankind
9) Tub Glee See _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ One of the biggest
8) Iris Us _ _ _ _ _ _ The brightest star in Earth’s night sky
The closest stellar system to the Sun—maybe a future home?
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A special place where stars are born
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A 4-D force that creates gravity & can bend light
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Strange energy that floods the entire universe & pulls it apart
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They seek me here, they seek me there, they seek me everywhere
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A 13.7 billion year-old blast from the past
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Proves that the universe is getting bigger
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A structure containing thousands and thousands of galaxies
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A baby galaxy close to Andromeda and the Milky Way
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A galaxy on a collision course with the Milky Way
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Two beautiful dwarf galaxies close to the Milky Way
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Rhymes with “Viper”—Pluto is one of the largest members
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Greek Goddess of discord and strife
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A bunch of objects hanging out between Mars and Jupiter
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I’m the most common star, but I’m too dim to see with the naked eye
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The holy grail for astronomers looking for a place like home
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Supergiant
Live fast, die young, and go out with a bang—that’s my motto
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White Dwarf
What’s left after a giant star has given it its all
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Supernova
The biggest explosion in the universe
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What’s left over after a supernova
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A screaming banshee of energy travelling at 6.2 million miles per hour
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A huge squished ball of old stars
10 Active Galaxy
An unpredictable galaxy with a super-massive black hole at its center
11 Colliding Galaxies
It’s like a massive car accident that takes one billion years
Sent there 12 Hubble Space Telescope
The only space object to ever wear corrective lenses
13 New Horizons
I’m boldly going where none have gone before
14 Voyagers
Twin explorers who have seen it all
15 Cassini-Huygens
We run rings around the object of our exploration
16 Space Junk
What, you thought we picked up the trash?
17 International Space Station Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky 18 Mars Rovers
Like the famous bunny, we keep going, and going
19 Seti
Hello . . . is there anybody out there?
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I’m the one who dated the Big Bang
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Objects
1 Famous for my blazing tail, I come around every 75 years
active galaxy
2
I’m the most common star, but I’m too dim to see with the naked eye
Cassini-Huygens
3 The holy grail for astronomers looking for a place like home
colliding galaxies
4 Live fast, die young, and go out with a bang—that’s my motto
elliptical galaxy
5 What’s left after a giant star has given it its all 6 The biggest explosion in the universe
extrasolar planet
7 What’s left over after a supernova
Galileo
8 A screaming banshee of energy travelling at 6.2 million miles per hour
Halley’s comet
9 A huge squished ball of old stars 10 An unpredictable galaxy with a super-massive black hole at its center 11 It’s like a massive car accident that takes one billion years
Hubble space telescope International Space Station
Sent there
Mars rovers
12 The only space object to ever wear corrective lenses
neutron star
13 I’m boldly going where none have gone before
New Horizons
14 Twin explorers who have seen it all 15 We run rings around the object of our exploration 16 What, you thought we picked up the trash? 17 Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky 18 Like the famous bunny, we keep going, and going 19 Hello . . . is there anybody out there?
red dwarf SETI space junk supergiant supernova supernova remnant
20 I’m the one who dated the Big Bang Voyagers
21 This Jupiter probe was named after the father of Astronomy
white dwarf WMAP
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