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The Night Sky

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Use the arrow keys to move between letters. Press Enter or Space on the first letter of a word, then again on the last letter. Press Escape to cancel.

A few of the words

NEBULA
The word comes from the Latin for 'mist' or 'cloud', early astronomers thought these soft, glowing patches were simply distant fog before telescopes revealed them as vast nurseries of new stars.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
ZENITH
The zenith is the point in the sky directly overhead, at exactly 90° above the horizon, and the stars that pass through it shine at their brightest and least distorted by atmosphere.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
VENUS
Venus is the brightest natural object in the night sky after the moon, and has been called the Evening Star and the Morning Star depending on where it appears in its orbit around the sun.Find this word in the grid to read its note.
CRATER
The moon's craters were formed by asteroid and meteorite impacts over billions of years; on a clear night, even a modest pair of binoculars can reveal dozens of them along the lunar surface.Find this word in the grid to read its note.

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The Night Sky: a free online word search

Night sky word search, free and printable, with ORION and NEBULA waiting in the dark.

About The Night Sky

On a clear night far from city lights, the sky fills edge to edge with stars, pinpoints of light that ancient navigators steered by and poets wrote about for centuries. The planets drift slowly among those fixed stars, Venus blazing low in the west at dusk, Mars glowing a steady rusty red. Turn a telescope toward any patch of darkness and the universe deepens: craters on the moon, the misty smear of a nebula, the silent arc of a passing comet.

How to play

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    Find a word.Tap its first letter, then tap along to its last. The trail fills in and finishes itself when it spells a word. Or press the first letter and drag.
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    Words run in straight lines.Across and down, and on the harder difficulties diagonally and backwards.
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    It marks itself.Each word you find takes on its own soft colour on the grid and is crossed off the list.
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    Choose a difficulty.Relaxed, Classic or Challenging set those directions and how much the word list helps, never the grid size. Tap the A buttons at the top to enlarge the letters, or pinch the grid.
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