Solar System
This planet is known as the “Red Planet”.
What is Mars?
The closest star to Earth (besides the Sun).
What is Proxima Centauri?
Earth’s only natural satellite.
What is the Moon?
The first human to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
These streaks of light occur when space rocks burn up in Earth’s atmosphere.
What is Meteors?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
A huge collection of stars, gas, and dust bound together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
The name of Jupiter’s largest moon.
What is Triton?
The year humans first landed on the Moon.
What is 1969?
When the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth, it causes this event.
What is Solar Eclipse?
The asteroid belt lies between these two planets.
What are Jupiter and Mars?
The massive event in which a supergiant star explodes.
What is Supernova?
Jupiter’s volcanic moon, the most geologically active in the solar system.
What is lo?
The first artificial satellite launched into space.
What is Sputnik 1?
The force that keeps planets in orbit around the Sun.
What is Gravity?
The third planet from the sun.
What is Earth?
The galaxy in which our solar system resides.
What is the Milky Way?
Uranus is unique because its rings and axis are tilted at about this angle (roughly).
What is 98°?
The name of NASA’s most famous space telescope, launched in 1990.
What is Hubble Space Telescope?
This effect causes galaxies to appear to move away from us, showing that the universe is expanding.
What is redshift?
Saturn’s largest moon, which has lakes of liquid methane.
What is Titan?
A region of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.
What is a Black Hole?
This moon of Jupiter is believed to have a subsurface ocean and is a top candidate for life.
What is Europa?
This rover landed on Mars in 2021 to search for signs of ancient life.
What is Perseverance?
The leftover radiation from the Big Bang that fills the universe.
What is the Cosmic Microwave Background?