This printable crossword puzzle on the topic of Astronomy & Space has 15 clues. Answers range from 4 to 14 letters long. This crossword is also available to download as a Microsoft Word document or a PDF.
What is the great circle formed by the intersection of the plane of the earth's orbit with the celestial sphere?
What is the outermost geological thin layer of an asteroid, moon or planet?
What is an asterioid, planet, star, moon, or galaxy on its central axis?
What is a celestial body moving about the sun that consist of the central mass?
What system includes the sun and the smaller bodies that orbit the sun?
Where is the outer region of a galaxy, that contains globular clusters, a few stray stars, and dark matter?
What is a enormous gravitationally bound assemblage of millions or billions of stars?
What is a sphere of hot gas held together by gravity and emanates brightness by itself?
What is a instrument used to brighten and magnify the view of astronomical objects?
What phase of the moon when it is halfway around its orbit from new moon and opposite the sun in the sky?
What is a planet that orbits the sun inside earth's orbit, these would be Mercury and Venus?
What do you call when the moon passes between the earth and the sun?
What is plural of spectrum?
What is it called when venus appears in the evening sky?
What is known as a shooting star?