Our Solar System
The 5th planet from the sun
The star at the center of our solar system
What is the sun?
The name of our home galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
These data-collection machines are sent to other celestial bodies (most famously Mars) and send information back to Earth.
What are rovers?
The competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union during the Cold War regarding the moon.
What was the Space Race?
The number of rings Saturn has
What is 7?
Big flaming spheres of gas
What are stars?
The event that started the known universe
What is the Big Bang?
The first successful mission to put humans on the moon.
What were the Apollo missions?
The field of study involving life outside of Earth.
What is astrobiology?
The region between Mars and Jupiter containing asteroids
What is the Asteroid Belt?
The type of star our sun will become when it blows up
What is a red giant?
The type of galaxy we live in
What is a spiral galaxy?
This rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021, and is the most recent Mars rover mission.
What is Perseverance?
The age of our universe.
What is 13.8 billion years old?
Neptune is this type of planet (hint. what is it made of?)
What is a gas giant?
The last stage of a star’s life cycle
What is a white dwarf?
The name of our closest neighboring galaxy
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
These missions were launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets of our solar system, and include two separate spacecraft of the same name
What is the Voyager mission/ Voyager 1 and Voyager 2?
The tidal effect of strong gravitational fields where objects are stretched in the direction of the massive object (usually a black hole).
What is spaghettification?
The first two dwarf planets discovered in our solar system.
What are Ceres and Pluto?
The method stars use to shine
What is nuclear fusion?
The two scientific theories that predict how the universe will end
What are the Great Heat Death and the Great Freeze?
The clearest space telescope available to us today
What is the James Webb Space telescope?
The point of no return of a black hole
What is the event horizon?