Planets
This planet is known as the "red planet" and is names after the Roman god of war
What is Mars?
This is why some stars are different colors (blue, red, yellow etc.)
What is "because they are different temperatures"?
Gravity on Earth always pulls towards this place.
What is the center of the Earth?
Earth rotates on this.
What is an axis?
We are located in this sweet and chocolatey galaxy.
What is the milky way?
This planet is a gas giant surrounded by very visible rings of ice and dust. This is the second largest planet in our solar system.
What is Saturn?
Constellations that appear at all times of the year, regardless of what season it is are known as _________ constellations.
What is circumpolar?
This planet has the highest gravitational pull in our solar system, therefore the most moons.
What is Jupiter?
When a lunar eclipse occurs, the moon appears to turn this color because Earth's shadow is blocking the sun's light.
What is red?
During the "Space Race" of the 1950s and 1960s the United States competed with this country to get to space, orbit the Earth, and then reach the moon.
What is the Soviet Union? (or Russia)
This planet is very similar in size to Earth, but uninhabitable because of an incredibly thick atmosphere of carbon dioxide that makes it extremely hot.
What is Venus?
Apparent brightness is a combination of these two factors.
What are absolute brightness and distance?
This is why "moonwalking" is possible.
What is "because there is less gravity on the moon because the moon is less massive than Earth"?
In this celestial event, the sun's light is blocked by the moon.
What is a solar eclipse?
Mae Jemison, the first African-American astronaut, had this job before joining NASA.
What is a doctor?
This planet is the furthest of our 8 planets from the sun and is named after the Roman god of water. Fittingly, it is one of 2 "ice giants."
What is Neptune?
As an average main sequence star right now, when it dies, our sun is predicted to become this.
What is a white dwarf?
If you were pulled into a black hole you would undergo this food-named process as a result of extreme gravitational pull.
What is spaghettification?
During the months of June, July, and August, this hemisphere of Earth is facing the sun.
What is the Northern Hemisphere?
Scientists have theorized that the universe began with a "big bang" based on this evidence.
What is "the universe is still expanding"
This is one of Jupiter's moons, and is thought to have many conditions suitable for life to survive on.
What is Europa?
Often known as the "Dog Star," this is the brightest star in the night sky, and shares it's name with a character from Harry Potter.
What is Sirius?
On average, most places experience this many high tides per day as a result of the moon's gravitational pull.
What is 2?
A year on Earth is 365 days, but a year on Mercury is this many days. (you must be within 20 days)
What is 88 days?
This astronaut was born in West Virginia in 1918 and skipped multiple grades in school to eventually become a lead mathematician behind the American effort to send John Glenn to orbit Earth in 1962
Who is Katherine Johnson?