Stars and The Sun
The brightest Star in our galaxy
What is Sirius?
Planet with no moons, whose revolution is 88 days.
What is mercury?
Name of the NASA mission that took 4 astronauts around the moon in April 2026
Moon's gravity is this fraction of Earth's.
What is 1/6?
Nicknamed "dirty snowballs".
What is a comet?
The energy process that powers stars.
What is thermonuclear fusion?
Only dwarf planet located in the Asteroid Belt.
What is Ceres?
How fast the International Space Station orbits the Earth?
What is every 90-93 minutes?
Phase of the moon between first quarter and a full moon
What is a waxing gibbous?
A meteroid that hits the Earth's atmosphere and burns up.
What is a meteor?
The visible surface of the sun.
What is the photosphere?
The 5 dwarf planets
What are Makemake, Haumea, Pluto, Eris and Ceres?
The acronym is NASA.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
Thickness (in miles) of the Earth's atmosphere?
What is 75?
Most asteroids are found in the asteroid belt, between these 2 planets.
What are Mars and Jupiter?
Prominent identifiable star patterns such as the Big Dipper?
What is an asterism?
The windiest planet.
What is Neptune?
Name of the first American in space.
Who was Alan Shepard?
These have been found in dinosaur fossils and suggest a young earth.
What is soft tissue (blood vessels/cells)?
Ice around a comet turns straight from solid ice to gas in a process called this
What is sublimation?
The Star classification of our Sun.
What is G-2 V?
It's north pole has a six sided jet stream with 20,000 mph winds.
What is Saturn?
Date that Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon.
What is July 20, 1969?
If the Earth is about 6,000 years old, the moon has moved this far away from it.
What is about 800 feet?
The 4 types of galaxies.
What are irregular, spiral, lenticular and elliptical?