Sun, Moon, and Stars

Name: ______________________   Date: ____________

Use the clues to fill in the crossword.

Across

  1. 1. The immortal winged horse that sprang from the blood of the slain Medusa (7)
  2. 4. A bowl-shaped geological formation at the top of a volcano (6)
  3. 7. An Ethiopian princess and daughter of Cassiopeia (9)
  4. 8. A magnifier of images of distant objects (9)
  5. 9. Natural satellite that orbits the Earth (4)
  6. 11. A faint star of enormous density (10)
  7. 12. A star that explodes and becomes extremely luminous in the process (9)
  8. 13. A cooler darker spot appearing periodically on the sun's photosphere (7)
  9. 14. The central part of the Earth (4)

Down

  1. 2. One celestial body obscures another (7)
  2. 3. The outermost region of the sun's atmosphere (6)
  3. 5. The wife of Cepheus and mother of Andromeda (10)
  4. 6. A giant Boeotian hunter who pursued the Pleiades and was eventually slain by Artemis (5)
  5. 10. A region of space resulting from the collapse of a star (9)
  6. 12. Ball of burning gas shining in the night sky (4)
  7. 13. The star our planet orbits (3)