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Celestial Wonders and Cosmic Mysteries
Explore the vastness of space with this crossword featuring key terms from astronomy, cosmology, and the universe’s grand phenomena.
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  • 1. Explosive death of a massive star
  • 2. Celestial body orbiting a star
  • 6. Instrument used to observe distant objects
  • 9. Small rocky body orbiting the sun
  • 11. Cloud of gas and dust in space
  • 13. Icy body that releases gas when near the sun
  • 15. Subatomic particle with no electric charge found in an atom’s nucleus
  • 17. Path one object takes around another in space
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  • 3. Extremely luminous active galactic nucleus
  • 4. Massive system of stars, dust, and dark matter
  • 5. Group of stars forming a pattern
  • 7. Distance light travels in one year
  • 8. Force that attracts two bodies toward each other
  • 10. Region of space with gravitational pull so strong that nothing escapes
  • 12. Event where one celestial body moves into the shadow of another
  • 14. Theory describing the origin of the universe
  • 16. The universe regarded as a complex and orderly system

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