Planets
This is the largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
What is a diamond?
This is the direction the sun rises
What is East?
Tom Hanks played an astranaut in this movie about a 1970 NASA mission
What is Apollo 13?
This is the name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
This planet is known for its rings
What is Saturn?
In the nursery rhyme "Hey Diddle Diddle," what animal jumped over the moon?
This imaginary line around the Earth is closest to the sun during the equinoxes
Carrie Fisher portrayed this princess in the original Star Wars trilogy
Who is Princess Leia?
This force, that pulls objects towards the center of the Earth, is absent in space.
What is gravity?
This is the planet closest to the sun
What is Mercury?
In 1969, the Beatles recorded this song about a star.
What is "Here Comes the Sun"
This is what happens when the moon blocks the sun
What is a solar eclipse?
William Shatner played this character in the original "Star Trek" series.
Who is Captain Kirk?
This is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space.
What is Sputnik?
This planet is known as the Red Planet
What is Mars?
Perry Como sang about catching falling stars and putting them in this
What is your pocket?
This is the term for the outermost layer of the sun's atmosphere
What is the Corona?
This actor played Han Solo in the original "Star Wars" trilogy
Who is Harrison Ford?
This is the name of the first human to walk on the Moon
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This planet is closest to Earth in size and structure
What is Venus?
In the song "Fly Me to the Moon," Frank Sinatra sang about wanting to see what Spring is like on these two planets.
What are Jupiter and Mars?
The sun is made mostly of this type of gas
What is hydrogen?
This actor played Spock in the original Star Trek series.
Who is Leonard Nimoy?
This is the term for a star that suddenly increases in brightness
What is a supernova?