shuttle

2. The thread holder used in weaving to carry the threads back and forth through the yarn, a spacecraft capable of carrying astronauts back and forth for short distances in space

3. shuttle

4. Having to do with the sky, heavenly, divine

5. celestial

6. The science that deals with the sun, moon, stars, planets, and other heavenly bodies

7. astronomy

8. A complete overthrow of government, movement in a circular path

9. revolution

10. A bright, heavenly body with a star-like center and a long tail

11. comet

12. A straight line around which an object turns or rotates

13. axis

14. A shooting star, a piece of matter that falls toward the earth at great speed from outer space

15. meteors

16. Everything in existence; the earth, the heavens, and all of space

17. universe

18. A group of billions of stars that form one system

19. galaxy

20. Noun – the path in which one heavenly body moves about another • Verb – to travel in an orbit

21. orbit

22. Noun – action or movement, a changing from one place or position to another • Verb – to signal

23. motion

24. Of or having to do with space

25. solar

26. An instrument for making distant things appear larger, often used for studying heavenly bodies.

27. telescope

28. Passing from sight because light is cut off

29. eclipse

30. A measure of distance equal to the distance that light travels in one year through space • (to infinity and beyond…hint)

31. Light-year

32. Circular turning on an axis

33. rotation

34. Any of the thousands of small objects that revolve around the sun. Most are between Mars and Jupiter.

35. asteroids

36. A group of stars such as the BIG DIPPER

37. A heavenly body that travels in orbit around another larger body, a man-made object that orbits the earth, the moon, or any other body in space

38. satellite

39. Having to do with the moon

40. lunar