Planets
The closest planet to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This star is commonly mistaken for a planet.
What is the Sun?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration is also known as.
What is NASA?
Hans Lippershey was credited with the invention of an object that aided the study of astronomy around 1608.
What is the telescope?
The large gas planet.
What is Jupiter?
The planet known as the red planet.
What is Mars?
This is the number of stars in our solar system.
What is one?
These two nations competed in the "space race."
What is the Soviet Union (Russia) and the United States?
The word astronomy is derived from ________ words meaning 'law of the stars'.
What is Greek?
First object to orbit the Earth, launched by the Russians.
What is Sputnik?
The volcanic mountain Olympus Mons is on this planet.
What is Mars?
Stars emit this, while planets and moons reflect it.
What is light?
The first two US humans sent to the moon on Apollo 11.
Who are Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong?
This 16th century mathematician suggested that the sun was the center of the universe and that planets revolved around the sun.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicusa?
An eclipse in which the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth's shadow.
What is Lunar?
Ganymede is a moon on this planet.
What is Jupiter?
A group of stars forming a recognizable pattern that is traditionally named after its apparent form or identified with a mythological figure.
What is a constellation?
The year that humans took their first steps on the moon.
What is 1969?
Invented the reflecting telescope in 1668.
Who was Sir Isaac Newton?
United States Air Force (USAF) facility located within the Nevada Test and Training Range.
Hint: There are recent threats to storm this location in search for extraterrestrials.
What is Area 51?
Name the order of the planets from closest to the Sun to farthest from the Sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
This is the largest type of star in the universe.
What is Red Supergiant?
The study of spacecraft trajectories.
What is Astrodynamics or Orbital Dynamics?
Albert Einstein introduces special Theory of ________ in paper Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies.
What is Relativity?
This constellation looks like a "W" or "M" and shares it's name with King Cepheus's wife who was said to be a great beauty along with her daughter Andromeda.
What is Cassiopeia?