Space Word Search Puzzle 30

SUPERNOVA: A supernova is a massive star's explosive death - it can briefly outshine an entire galaxy with billions of stars.

MILKYWAY: The Milky Way is our home galaxy containing over 200 billion stars, including our Sun.

ROCKET: Rockets escape Earth's gravity by burning fuel and pushing hot gas downward at extremely high speeds.

PLANET: A planet is a large round object that orbits a star, like Earth or Mars.

MOON: Earth's Moon controls ocean tides through its gravity and always shows the same face to us because it's tidally locked.

SHUTTLE: Space shuttles were reusable spacecraft that NASA used for 30 years from 1981 to 2011 to carry people and cargo to space.

HYDRA: Hydra is the largest constellation in the sky, stretching across a huge area and named after a mythical water serpent.

NEPTUNE: Neptune has the fastest winds in the solar system, blowing at speeds up to 1,200 mph (2,000 km/h).

GRAVITY: Gravity is the invisible force that pulls objects with mass toward each other - it keeps us on Earth and planets orbiting the Sun.