Stars
This is the name of the 4.6 billion year old star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This is the hottest planet with temperatures ranging from 440° to 480° C.
What is Venus?
This planet has the most moons and rings visible with a telescope.
What is Saturn?
This is the galaxy in which our solar system resides.
What is the Milky Way?
This is what we call a meteorite as it is burning through the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
This mission landed the first men, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
These are dark, cooler areas that appear on the surface of the Sun.
What are sunspots?
This planet has a solar year of 365.25 Earth days and a solar day of 24 Earth hours.
What is Earth?
This planet has the largest volume of all the planets in our solar system and a storm named the Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
There are three different types of galaxies and the Milky Way is this kind.
What is a spiral galaxy?
These small space rocks occasionally fall into Earth's orbit and begin to burn.
What is a meteoroid?
The stages before the Apollo missions were these two sets of missions.
What are the Mercury project and the Gemini program?
This is the closest star to the solar system.
What is Proxima Centauri?
In another life, this small but swift planet was known as Hermes.
What is Mercury?
This planet appears to rotate on its side.
What is Uranus?
This is the name of the closest galaxy to our own galaxy.
What is Andromeda?
These small chunks of ice and dust vaporize as they approach the Sun, often resulting in a tail that trails behind it.
What is a comet?
This was the first manned mission by NASA after the Apollo 1 tragedy.
What is Apollo 7?
A red giant could either have its outer layer blown away and become a white dwarf or it could implode and result in this.
What is a supernova?
Because it is covered in iron oxide dust, this planet has been nicknamed the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit this planet thus far.
What is Neptune?
About 13.8 billion years ago, this event is theorized to have happened.
What is the Big Bang?
What is a dwarf planet?
This place is important because it enables unique scientific research in microgravity, fosters international cooperation, inspires education, advances technology, and helps prepare for future deep space missions.
What is the International Space Station?
Polaris, the North Star, is part of this constellation.
What is Ursa Minor?
This is a collection of space debris that is made of carbon, silicate, or metals which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This is a vast region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune, stretching from about 30 to 55 astronomical units.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
This is the faint glow of radiation left over from the Big Bang and is known as the universe's "baby picture" as it captured what the universe looked like when it was 380,000 years old.
What is cosmic microwave background radiation?
Apophis is one of these. Lucy and Psyche are studying these.
What are asteroids?
NASA stands for this.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?