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Astronomical word grid 1 2 3 6 4 7 10 5 8 9 11 12 13 14 16 15 17 18 19 20 23 21 22 24 25 26 27 29 32 30 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 1 31 Astronomical wordgrid Across 4. The distance of an object with a parallax of one second 7. The plane of our galaxy visible as a pale band of stars 12. The shape of a planet’s orbit 14. Name given to the line between day and night on the Moon 17. The brightest star in the northern sky 18. The apparent backwards movement of the planets in the sky 22. A type of variable star used to measure distance 25. The name used to describe the brightness of a star 26. The name given to a very large but cool star 29. He discovered the moons of Jupiter 30. A type of telescope using lenses 35. A very luminous and distant compact object 36. The energy that powers the stars 38. The moon of Jupiter with an active volcano 40. The largest planet 42. The line in the sky along which the Sun and the planets move Down 1. An object with an escape velocity greater than the speed of light 2. A huge cloud of low density gas sometimes shining 3. A huge collection of some hundred thousand million stars 5. A ball of ice and rock orbiting the Sun with a long period 6. A star emitting radio waves of with a period that may be as short as a few seconds 7. A lump of rock falling through the Earth’s atmosphere 8. The time it takes the Earth to orbit the Sun once 9. The name given to a small hot star is a …. dwarf 10. A bright planet visible as a morning or evening star 11. He proposed the law of gravitation 13. The furthest planet from the Sun 15. A type of telescope using a large mirror as the objective 16. The name of the point on an orbit closest to the Sun 17 A new star formed by a massive explosion of a star 19. The name of a telescope mounting with one axis parallel to that of the Earth 20. The change of colour of the light from receding galaxies 21. The constellation containing the star Rigel 23. The time it takes the Earth to rotate once on its axis 24. He discovered three laws of planetary motion 27. The name given to a star whose brightness changes 29. The spectral class of our Sun 31. Stars that never set 32. The time of year when the Sun crosses the celestial equator 33. Name given to the “seas” on the Moon 34. The distance light travels in a year 37. A new star formed by a partial explosion of another star 39. The name given to the “wobbling” of the Moon that allows us to see more than half of it 41. The proper name for the constellation part of which we call the Plough 2