Science Unit #3 {Space} Crossword

The strange orbit and small size caused its re-classification from a major planet to a minor planet.
What causes hot plasma to be flung with great force away from the sun into space?
What is the name for dark areas on the surface of the sun?
What is the thin layer of the atmosphere above the photosphere that is only seen during a total solar eclipse?
What is the outermost layer of the sun that extends for km {Only seen during a solar eclipse}
What is the name for when streams of plasma extending from the photosphere into the corona?
When objects are seen because they give off their own light {Stars}?
The sun is made up of 73% of this gas?
What star does the Earth orbit around?
What is the Earths natural satellite orbiting the Earth?
What is the name for a cloud of interstellar gas and dust?
The force of attraction by which terrestrial bodies tend to fall toward the center of the earth.
Any of various groups of stars to which definite names have been given.
What is the early stage of a star after the beginning of the collapse of the gas cloud from which it is formed, but before sufficient contraction has occurred to permit initiation of nuclear reactions at its core.
The explosion of a star, possibly caused by gravitational collapse.
A region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
A theoretical massive object, formed at the beginning of the universe or by the gravitational collapse of a star exploding as a supernova.
This planet shares a name with the ancient roman god of war and agriculture.
Any of the large, self-luminous, heavenly bodies, as the sun, Polaris, etc.
The totality of known or supposed objects and phenomena throughout space
The distance traversed by light in one mean solar year.
Another name for asteroid.
Also called minor planet, small rocky objects inside the "Asteroid Belt"
Nicknamed "dirty snowballs"
A meteoroid that has entered the earth's atmosphere.
This planet shares a name with th ancient Italian goddess of gardens and spring, identified by the Romans with Aphrodite as the goddess of love and beauty.
This planet shares a name with the ancient Roman god of agriculture, the consort of Ops, believed to have ruled the earth during an age of happiness and virtue, identified with the Greek god Cronus.
The gaseous envelope surrounding the earth; the air.
A large-scale solar event involving an ejection of hot plasma that may accelerate charged particles and travel as far as the earth's orbit, preceded by a shock front that may create a magnetic storm on earth.
The partial or imperfect shadow outside the complete shadow of an opaque body, as a planet, where the light from the source of illumination is only partly cut off.
The obscuration of the light of the moon by the intervention of the earth between it and the sun
A star in an intermediate stage of evolution, characterized by a large volume, low surface temperature, and reddish hue.
An exceptionally luminous star whose diameter is more than 100 times that of the sun, as Betelgeuse or Antares.