The Celestial Archive

Clues in this puzzle

Across

• A sudden stellar brightness from a white dwarf (4)
• A silver ball that started the race in 1957 (7)
• An extremely bright heart of a distant galaxy (6)
• A cosmic lighthouse spinning at incredible speeds (6)
• A massive city of stars bound by gravity (6)
• The Pole who stopped the sun and moved the earth (10)
• A celestial lion containing a Regulus heart (3)
• A cracked ice world with a hidden ocean (6)
• A falling star that burns in the air (6)
• A pale blue dot enthusiast who spoke of billions (5)
• The agency that put boots on the lunar dust (4)

Down

• The G-type star that keeps us grounded (3)
• A peaceful station that fell into the Pacific (3)
• A nursery of stars made of gas and dust (6)
• A Russian union that remains a reliable taxi to the stars (5)
• A war god seeing red in the night sky (4)
• A periodic visitor who returns every seventy-six years (6)
• A cupbearer larger than the swiftest planet (8)
• The universe seen as a well-ordered whole (6)
• A bowl-shaped scar from a space impact (6)
• A ringed titan that would float in a giant bathtub (6)
• A small harp constellation with a bright Vega (4)
• Saturns moon that wears a thick orange shroud (5)
• The queen of Uranus moons (7)
• The smaller dread circling a war god (6)

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