Telescopes
That's not your winning smile in the mirror, it's the image of far away galaxies captured by these types of telescopes
What is a Reflecting Telescope?
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's...not superman, but this vehicle, which launches astronauts into space and returns them to Earth like an airplane
What is the Space Shuttle?
What is Axis?
Watch out for werewolves, they prowl when all the Moon's earth-facing surface is reflecting light
What is a Full Moon?
Who is Neill Armstrong?
Want to be a professional astronomer? You might spend much of your time in buildings like these, the dome shaped homes to many telescopes here on earth.
What are observatories?
That's no moon, it's!...these livable structures built in orbit around Earth where astronauts can spend extended time conducting experiments in space
What is a Space Station?
Round and round it goes, where it stops...well, nowhere hopefully! This orbiting of the Sun is known as the Earth's...
What is Revolution?
"Wax on, wax off", this moon phase means that the visible moon is growing each night.
What is a Waxing Moon?
This man didn't need a rocket to know the Earth was round, he just had to watch the shadows
Who was Aristotle?
Launched in 1990, this orbiting giant was the largest telescope in human history upon its construction.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This 2001 station represents the combined efforts of more than 15 nations
What is the International Space Station?
Can you feel the attraction? It's not Valentine's Day, its the swirling metals inside Earth creating this protective shield against the Sun's radiation
What is the Magnetic Field?
Starting with a bang, this theory suggests that the Moon formed billions of years ago from debris of a huge collision between Earth and another planet.
What is the Impact Theory?
Before they "slipped the surly bonds of Earth", these astronauts were the crew of this doomed space shuttle
What is the Challenger
Do you hear that? It's the sound of the mysteries of space, being picked up by these types of telescopes
What are Radio Telescopes?
Pathfinder, Surveyor, and Opportunity all beat Matt Damon to this red planet
What is Mars?
The days just get longer and longer, or shorter and shorter, and eventually they arrive at the longest and shortest days of the year, known as these
What are solstices?
Don't look up! Especially during this type of eclipse, in which the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun.
What is a Solar Eclipse?
No a Greek god, but the men and women who took us to the Moon, they worked on this Project that led to Armstrong's famous small steps
What is Project Apollo?
Ride the waves of radiation, which can all be found along this
What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
Gilligan has nothing on this 7 year tour undertaken by the space probe Cassini, which finally reached it's destination in 2004 when it arrived at this planet
What is Saturn?
All's fair in love, war, and these days, in which night and day are equal to each other due to the Earth's rotation
What are equinoxes?
These dark, flat regions of the Moon are the result of lava filling impact craters?
What are Maria?
This man took the words "boldly go where no man has gone before" to heart when he became the first human in space
Who is Yuri Gagarin