Moon
ogether with the Sun, this celestial body causes the Earth’s oceans to have tides.
What is the Moon? - Madeline
This planet’s orbit is the closest to the Earth’s.
What is Venus? - Li’l Devy B.
These are specific areas of the sky usually with a designated asterism in them, and is regulated by the IAU.
What is a constellation? - Beth
This is the order of star classification.
What is O B A F G K M? - Aniesia
This is a large gravitationally bound system of billions of stars.
What is a galaxy? - Kris
This phase of the Moon is when only a little dark is visible on the left side (and apparently when you hair grows the fastest?...nope)
What is Waxing Gibbous? - Amelia
This is the 5th closest planet to the Sun.
What is Jupiter? - Kellen
This is the element being fused in the core of red dwarf stars.
What is Hydrogen? - Li’l Devy B.
These main sequence stars are the largest and hottest.
What are Blue Giant/Blue/O class stars? - Li’l Devy B.
This Greek word is the origin for the word “Galaxy”.
What is “Milkey”? -Kellen
This is the phase of the Moon when it is half way through its cycle.
What is the Full Moon? - Bobbie
This man was the first to scientifically prove the Earth is not at the center of the universe.
Who was Copernicus? - Lexia
This is approximately how long it will take our star to die.
What is about 5 billion years? - Jase
This stage of a star is responsible for the formation of all heavy elements.
What is a supernova? - Daniel
DAILY DOUBLE
These galaxies are a sort of mixture between spiral and barred spiral galaxies.
This phase of the Moon is when it is lit a small amount on the right side.
What is waxing crescent? -Bee
These two planets are considered “Ice Giants”.
What are Uranus and Neptune? - Kellen
DAILY DOUBLE
This type of star can become a neutron star.
This is the smallest and coolest of the true stars (still doing fusion).
What are Red Dwarf Stars? - Cayleb
These galaxies are almost featureless, and appear like a squashed sphere.
What is an Elliptical Galaxy? - Lexia
This man was the first to walk on the moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong? - Jase
This is the brightest object in the sky after the Moon & Sun.
What is Venus? - Bobbie
This is the formula Kepler’s third law (that we used on the Calculating Orbits assignment).
What is (Ta/Tb)2 = (Ra/Rb)3 - Aniesia
This is a scatter plot of stars that shows the relationship between magnitude/luminosity and surface temperature.
What is an HR Diagram? - Beth
This type of Galaxy is formed after the collision of multiple galaxies.
What is a Lenticular Galaxy? - Kellen