Stars
Which is the largest start within our solar system?
sun
These dancing rivers of stellar delight are more formally known as...
Aurora
This is the 7th planet from the sun.
uranus
The three main parts of a comet are the nucleus, the tail, and the _____?
coma
One of these is theorized to exist at the center of our milky way galaxy and often thought to pull everything, even light, inside.
blackhole
Which constellation represents a hunter and weapons?
orion
how far away is the moon
200,000 miles
This planet is sometimes known as the “evening star” and at other times the ”morning star”
venus
These highly eccentric wanderers have a nucleus and their tails are always pointing away from the sun.
comets
On July 20th 1969, it was the first manned mission to land on the Moon
apollo 11
What is the most common type of star found in the Milky Way?
red dwarf stars
How many Earths could fit inside the sun?
Planet with a thick atmosphere of sulfuric acid.
venus
What accounts for approximately 85% of the matter in the universe?
dark mattter
This Disney/Pixar namesake is the distance that light travels in a year…almost “to infinity and beyond”.
light year
The 3 main classifications of galaxies
What are Spiral, Irregular, and Elliptical?
How long does it take the sun’s rays to reach Earth?
Eight minutes.
Why isn’t it possible to walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, or Neptune?
Because they do not have solid surfaces.
Ceres, with a diameter of 960 km, is the largest of these. They are most commonly found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter.
asteroids
What term do astronomers use to describe the two times a year when day and night are of equal length?
equinox
These “O” types of stars are very, very hot and very bright.
Blue giants
In July of 1969 these were the 1st two words spoken & transmitted by humans when they landed on the Moon.
What is “contact light”
This planet has such a low density it would float in a giant bathtub.
saturn
What is the largest type of star in the universe?
Red supergiant stars.
These “twin” missions gave us our first close looks at the gas giants and showed us first glimpses of their rings and moons.
voyager space probes