Starlight Star Bright
Star closest to the Earth.
What is THE SUN.
The Sun and all the bodies that Orbit it.
What is the Solar System.
An imaginary center line around which Earth rotates.
What is the Axis.
Name the first 4 planets.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars
A huge system of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.
What is a Galaxy.
Our next nearest star system (located 4.3 light years away).
What is a ALPHA AND PROXIMA CENTAURI.
The time it takes sunlight to reach the earth.
What is 8.31 minutes.
The Earth's ___________ gives us day and night.
What is rotation.
Name the last 4 planets after Mars, also known as the gas giants..
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune.
The distance light travels in one year.
What is a light-year.
The name of the red giant located within the constellation Orion.
What is BETELGEUSE.
A planet's trip around the sun.
What is an orbit.
it takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun.
What is an Orbit or Revolution.
This little guy was demoted to dwarf planet status.
What is Pluto.
A rocky mass up to several hundred kilometers wide that revolves around the Sun.
What is an Asteroid.
Another name for a measure of a star's "true brightness".
What is a ABSOLUTE BRIGHTNESS.
Is our sun a small, medium or large star.
What is a medium star.
The natural Satellite that orbits the earth.
What is the Moon.
This planet is our neighbor and is also known as the "Red" planet.
What is MARS.
A frozen mass of different types of ice and dust orbiting the Sun.
What is a Comet.
A group of stars that form a pattern.
What is a CONSTELLATION.
The center of our solar system is
What is the sun.
Earth is the ________ planet from the Sun.
What is the 3rd.
This planet is famous for its many rings.
What is Saturn.
In 1969 he was the first person to walk on the moon.
Who is NEIL ARMSTRONG.