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A little stargazing

A 12-word night-sky puzzle about space, observation, and familiar celestial objects.

Spend a few minutes with the vocabulary of the night sky. This puzzle mixes things we observe, such as a comet or the Moon, with tools and ideas used to explore space. The entries range from four to nine letters, with forward horizontal, vertical, and diagonal placements.

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A little stargazing

Find words across, down, diagonally. No backwards words.

  • STAR
  • MOON
  • PLANET
  • COMET
  • ORBIT
  • GALAXY
  • TELESCOPE
  • NEBULA
  • METEOR
  • COSMOS
  • SATURN
  • VENUS

Tap the first and last letters of a word. Keyboard: arrows to move, Enter to select, Esc to cancel.

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Before you begin

Search across, down, and diagonally. Words do not run backwards. Spaces are removed from phrases in the grid. Tap the first and last letters to mark a word online.

Make it a shared activity

Mark which words name objects and which describe tools or ideas. Choose one unfamiliar term and look up a plain-language definition before your next observing session.

Print and check

Choose your paper size and download two pages: puzzle first, answer key second. The highlighted paths match this fixed puzzle, and every listed word is checked during the site build.

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