Our Solar System
This is the planet we live on.
What is Earth?
Stars are born in these clouds of gas and dust.
What are nebulae?
A tool that makes distant objects look closer.
What is a telescope?
This astronomer was one of the first to use a telescope to study the sky.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
The path a planet takes around a star.
What is an orbit?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
What is the name of a rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of radiation?
What is a pulsar?
This telescope is located in space and takes amazing pictures.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This astronomer proposed a heliocentric model of the solar system, where the Sun is at the center.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
The universal force of attraction acting between all bodies of matter.
What is gravity?
This planet is known for its beautiful rings.
What is Saturn?
What is the term for a region of spacetime with such strong gravity that nothing, not even light, can escape?
What is a black hole?
This tool breaks light into its different colors.
What is a spectroscope?
This astronomer made detailed observations of Mars and developed laws of planetary motion.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
A large group of stars, gas, and dust held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
Which planet is the closest to the Sun?
What is Mercury?
What is the name of a star that suddenly increases in brightness?
What is a nova or supernova?
This tool is used to observe radio waves from space.
What is a radio telescope?
This person studied black holes and the beginning of the universe.
Who was Stephen Hawking?
The spinning of a planet on its axis.
What is rotation?
The largest dwarf planet in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
What is the final stage in the life cycle of a sun-like star?
What is a white dwarf?
These spacecraft travel to other planets to collect data.
What are space probes?
This person was the first human to walk on the Moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
Object's orbital motion around another object
What is revolution?