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Space12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 4 Ringed sixth planet from the sun
  • 5 Longest or shortest day of the year
  • 7 Wheeled robot exploring a planet's surface
  • 9 Bowl-shaped dent left by an impact
  • 10 Event when one body blocks the light of another
  • 13 Person trained to fly beyond the atmosphere
  • 14 Streak of light from a bit of rock burning up
  • 15 Curved path one body takes around another
  • 16 Glowing cloud where new stars are born

Down

  • 1 Vast system of stars, gas and dust
  • 2 Force that keeps the moon circling us
  • 3 Largest planet, home to a Great Red Spot
  • 6 Structure a rocket lifts off from
  • 8 Tool that brings distant objects into view
  • 11 Natural satellite first walked on in 1969
  • 12 Icy traveler with a glowing tail

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Space1GAL2G3J4SATURNUXAPYVIIT5SO6LSTICEAY7ROVERU8TN9CRATER10ECLIPSEL11MHEOP12C13ASTRONAUTOCND14METEOREP15ORBIT16NEBULA
  1. 1 down: GALAXY. Vast system of stars, gas and dust
  2. 2 down: GRAVITY. Force that keeps the moon circling us
  3. 3 down: JUPITER. Largest planet, home to a Great Red Spot
  4. 4 across: SATURN. Ringed sixth planet from the sun
  5. 5 across: SOLSTICE. Longest or shortest day of the year
  6. 6 down: LAUNCHPAD. Structure a rocket lifts off from
  7. 7 across: ROVER. Wheeled robot exploring a planet's surface
  8. 8 down: TELESCOPE. Tool that brings distant objects into view
  9. 9 across: CRATER. Bowl-shaped dent left by an impact
  10. 10 across: ECLIPSE. Event when one body blocks the light of another
  11. 11 down: MOON. Natural satellite first walked on in 1969
  12. 12 down: COMET. Icy traveler with a glowing tail
  13. 13 across: ASTRONAUT. Person trained to fly beyond the atmosphere
  14. 14 across: METEOR. Streak of light from a bit of rock burning up
  15. 15 across: ORBIT. Curved path one body takes around another
  16. 16 across: NEBULA. Glowing cloud where new stars are born
Space12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 2 Glowing cloud where new stars are born
  • 3 Event when one body blocks the light of another
  • 5 Streak of light from a bit of rock burning up
  • 9 Bowl-shaped dent left by an impact
  • 10 Person trained to fly beyond the atmosphere
  • 13 Icy traveler with a glowing tail
  • 14 Longest or shortest day of the year
  • 15 Wheeled robot exploring a planet's surface
  • 16 Natural satellite first walked on in 1969

Down

  • 1 Largest planet, home to a Great Red Spot
  • 4 Structure a rocket lifts off from
  • 6 Force that keeps the moon circling us
  • 7 Curved path one body takes around another
  • 8 Vast system of stars, gas and dust
  • 11 Tool that brings distant objects into view
  • 12 Ringed sixth planet from the sun

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Space1J2NEBULAPIT3EC4LIPSE5METEORAU6GNR7O8G9CRATERAHVBLPII10AS11TRONAUTTXEDYYLESC12S13COMETAP14SOLSTICEU15ROVER16MOON
  1. 1 down: JUPITER. Largest planet, home to a Great Red Spot
  2. 2 across: NEBULA. Glowing cloud where new stars are born
  3. 3 across: ECLIPSE. Event when one body blocks the light of another
  4. 4 down: LAUNCHPAD. Structure a rocket lifts off from
  5. 5 across: METEOR. Streak of light from a bit of rock burning up
  6. 6 down: GRAVITY. Force that keeps the moon circling us
  7. 7 down: ORBIT. Curved path one body takes around another
  8. 8 down: GALAXY. Vast system of stars, gas and dust
  9. 9 across: CRATER. Bowl-shaped dent left by an impact
  10. 10 across: ASTRONAUT. Person trained to fly beyond the atmosphere
  11. 11 down: TELESCOPE. Tool that brings distant objects into view
  12. 12 down: SATURN. Ringed sixth planet from the sun
  13. 13 across: COMET. Icy traveler with a glowing tail
  14. 14 across: SOLSTICE. Longest or shortest day of the year
  15. 15 across: ROVER. Wheeled robot exploring a planet's surface
  16. 16 across: MOON. Natural satellite first walked on in 1969
Space12345678910111213141516

Across

  • 3 Ringed sixth planet from the sun
  • 5 Longest or shortest day of the year
  • 9 Person trained to fly beyond the atmosphere
  • 11 Wheeled robot exploring a planet's surface
  • 13 Glowing cloud where new stars are born
  • 14 Event when one body blocks the light of another
  • 15 Force that keeps the moon circling us
  • 16 Bowl-shaped dent left by an impact

Down

  • 1 Natural satellite first walked on in 1969
  • 2 Largest planet, home to a Great Red Spot
  • 4 Vast system of stars, gas and dust
  • 6 Tool that brings distant objects into view
  • 7 Structure a rocket lifts off from
  • 8 Icy traveler with a glowing tail
  • 10 Streak of light from a bit of rock burning up
  • 12 Curved path one body takes around another

Print the page above, or take the hard grid as a PDF. Both carry the answer key, and large print is a setting rather than a separate file.

Show the answer key
Space1MO2JO3SATURNP4GIAT5SOLS6TICEAERXL7LYE8CA9ASTRONAUT10MCMN11R12OVER13NEBULAOECRTPTHB14ECLIPSEPIO15GRAVITY16CRATERD
  1. 1 down: MOON. Natural satellite first walked on in 1969
  2. 2 down: JUPITER. Largest planet, home to a Great Red Spot
  3. 3 across: SATURN. Ringed sixth planet from the sun
  4. 4 down: GALAXY. Vast system of stars, gas and dust
  5. 5 across: SOLSTICE. Longest or shortest day of the year
  6. 6 down: TELESCOPE. Tool that brings distant objects into view
  7. 7 down: LAUNCHPAD. Structure a rocket lifts off from
  8. 8 down: COMET. Icy traveler with a glowing tail
  9. 9 across: ASTRONAUT. Person trained to fly beyond the atmosphere
  10. 10 down: METEOR. Streak of light from a bit of rock burning up
  11. 11 across: ROVER. Wheeled robot exploring a planet's surface
  12. 12 down: ORBIT. Curved path one body takes around another
  13. 13 across: NEBULA. Glowing cloud where new stars are born
  14. 14 across: ECLIPSE. Event when one body blocks the light of another
  15. 15 across: GRAVITY. Force that keeps the moon circling us
  16. 16 across: CRATER. Bowl-shaped dent left by an impact

About Space

Space is mostly empty, and that emptiness is what makes everything in it visible: light from a galaxy crosses millions of years before reaching a telescope lens. Jupiter and Saturn are gas giants, massive enough that their gravity shapes the paths of comets and asteroids across the solar system. Craters on the Moon stay sharp for billions of years because there is no wind or rain to wear them down. This crossword works through the vocabulary astronomers and mission engineers use daily.

Reach for this during an astronomy unit, before a planetarium visit, or on the afternoon of an eclipse.

What is in this crossword

A 23 by 19 crossword with 9 across and 7 down, on the subject of Space.

Grid
23 x 19
Across
9
Down
7
Longest answer
LAUNCHPAD (9 letters)

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