Solar System
This celestial object is in the middle of our solar system, providing Earth with light and heat.
What is the Sun?
Our Sun is this type of giant, shining space object made of hot gas.
What is a star?
Ascientist who studies outer space, stars, and planets.
What is an astronomer?
This motion of Earth facing away from the Sun. This is what causes nighttime on our planet.
What is rotation?
This is where all constellations are located.
What is outside of our solar system?
This is a pattern or group of stars in the night sky
What is a constellation?
This is what you do when you picture how big something in in your head.
What is visualizing?
This is the third planet from the Sun, floating in space, where humans live.
What is Earth?
The exact number of stars in our solar system.
What is one?
Scientists create these to represent the large objects they study.
What are models?
Ordered from smallest to largest, this is the correct sequence for planet Earth, a constellation, and a student.
What is a student, planet Earth, and a constellation?
Orion and the Big Dipper are two well-known examples of these star patterns.
What are constellations?
It sounds like a unit of time, but this term measures distance in space.
What is a light-year?
Earth completes one full orbit around this star every 365 days.
What is the Sun?
The distant star Sirius is larger than our Sun, but it looks like a tiny point of light from Earth because of this factor.
What is distance/or being many light-years away?
This happens when artificial city lights hide the night sky.
What is light pollution?