The Sun & Stars
This is the center of our solar system and provides light and heat to all the planets.
What is the Sun?
Known as the "Red Planet," it is the fourth planet from the sun.
What is Mars?
This is the largest planet in our solar system and has a "Great Red Spot."
What is Jupiter?
He was the first person to use a telescope to look at the planets and stars.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This force keeps the planets in orbit around the sun.
What is gravity?
The Sun is actually this type of celestial object.
What is a star?
This is the smallest planet and the one closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
This planet is famous for its bright, beautiful rings made of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
In 1969, these two astronauts were the first humans to walk on the moon.
Who are Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin?
This is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
Our solar system is located in this specific "arm" of the Milky Way galaxy.
What is the Orion Arm?
This planet is the hottest in our solar system because of its thick, heat-trapping clouds.
What is Venus?
These two "Ice Giants" are the furthest planets from the sun.
What are Uranus and Neptune?
This Polish astronomer was the first to propose that the Earth orbits the sun, not the other way around.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This "dwarf planet" was considered the ninth planet until 2006.
What is Pluto?
It takes this many minutes for light from the sun to reach Earth.
What is 8 minutes?
This is the only planet in our solar system known to support life.
What is Earth?
This many Earths could fit inside the planet Jupiter.
What is 1,300?
This was the name of the first man-made satellite launched into space by the Soviet Union in 1957.
What is Sputnik 1?
This is the name for the giant cloud of gas and dust from which our solar system formed.
What is a nebula
These dark, cooler patches on the sun's surface can be larger than the Earth.
What are sunspots?
This is the name of the belt of rocks located between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This spacecraft, launched in 1977, has traveled further from Earth than any other man-made object.
What is Voyager 1?
She was the first American woman to travel into space.
Who is Sally Ride?
This is the term for a planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system.
What is an exoplanet?