Solar System
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter
The galaxy we live in.
What is The Milky Way
This constellation contains the “Big Dipper.”
What is Ursa Major
This scientist built one of the first telescopes in 1609.
What is Galileo Galilei
NASA’s reusable vehicle used from 1981–2011.
What is The Space Shuttle
The hottest planet in the Solar System.
What is Venus
The explosion that started the universe.
What is The Big Bang
Orion’s brightest star.
What is Rigel
The telescope launched in 1990 that orbits Earth and takes deep-space images.
What is Hubble Space Telescope
The rover that landed on Mars in 2021.
What is Perseverance
This planet rotates on its side, giving it extreme seasons.
What is Uranus
A region of spacetime where gravity is so strong that not even light escapes.
What is a black hole
This zodiac constellation is shaped like a scorpion.
What is Scorpius
These telescopes detect heat energy instead of visible light.
What is Infrared telescopes
This probe is the farthest human-made object from Earth.
What is Voyager 1
The dwarf planet located in the Kuiper Belt once considered the ninth planet.
What is Pluto
The universe is getting bigger over time; this is the term for that process.
What is the Expansion of the universe
The Little Dipper’s tail ends with this North Star.
What is Polaris
Telescope mirrors are usually shaped like this to focus light to a point.
What is Parabolic
This spacecraft carried the first humans to the Moon in 1969.
What is Apollo 11
This region beyond Neptune is home to icy bodies and comets.
What is the Kuiper Belt
Most of the universe is made of these two mysterious components.
What is Dark matter and dark energy
This constellation resembles a winged horse.
What is Pegasus
The world’s largest single-dish radio telescope is this type of telescope (radio, optical, etc.).
What is a Radio telescope
The program that currently uses reusable rockets to send cargo and crew to space (company name accepted).
What is SpaceX (Falcon 9 / Dragon program)