Planets
This is the 4th planet from our sun
What is Mars?
The theoretical gravitational boundary of our solar system that has a lot of comets.
What is the Oort Cloud?
The stage of life that the sun will experience after the current stage is called this.
What is a red giant?
The scientist in the Renaissance Age is known for developing the Heliocentric theory that the planets orbit around the sun.
Who is Copernicus?
When an object moves backwards in comparison to another object in the night sky.
What is retrograde?
The planets that are not visible to us via the naked eye.
What are Uranus and Neptune?
The closest galaxy to us besides the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Fusion in a star involves these two elements.
What are Hydrogen and Helium?
The scientist known for creating three laws of planetary motion.
Who is Kepler?
The term for when a planet/moon are rotating and revolving at the same speed.
What is tidally locked?
The year in which Pluto was declared to no longer be a planet
What is 2006?
The brightest star in the night sky is this one.
What is Sirius?
To the nearest 10, how many times can Earth be lined up side-by-side in the sun?
Who is Ptolemy?
A meteor brighter than the planet Venus is known as this, not to be confused with the song by Pitbull.
What is fireball?
This is the only planet that spins sideways at a 97.77 degree angle
What is Uranus?
The nearest one of these to us is 1560 light years away.
What is a black hole?
The amount of time it takes for the Sun's radiation to reach Earth.
What is 8 minutes and 20 seconds?
This constellation was referred to as "The Drinking Gourd" and was used as a point of reference to many enslaved African Americans as they escaped slavery to go to freedom up North.
What is Ursa Major (or the Big Dipper)?
The next time we will see Halley's comet from Earth will be this year in the 20th Century.
What is 2061?
What are Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Makemake, and Eris?
The nearest star to us besides the Sun.
What is Proxima Centauri?
The sun has orbited around this specific object in the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is the black hole Sagittarius A?
Name one famous Ancient Greek Philosopher who proposed that the Earth was round.
Who is Pythagoras or Aristotle?
The name of the space probe launched in 1977 that is currently the farthest manmade object from Earth, expected to reach a distance of one light day from Earth in November 2026.
What is Voyager 1?