General
Unit of measurement for distances in space.
What is a light year?
This is what you call an exploding star.
What is a Nova?
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is The Milky Way?
A ball of ice that orbits the sun.
What is a comet?
Piece of space debris that reaches the earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
Scientific study of the universe/space.
What is Astronomy?
This is a collection of planets orbiting the sun.
What is a solar system?
This is millions of stars rotating around a center.
What is a galaxy?
These are the two parts of a comet
What are the Head and the Tail?
Piece of space debris that burns up in the atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
Superstitious belief that stars control the future.
What is Astrology?
A cloud of gas and dust in space.
What is a nebula?
A group of stars that form a picture.
What is a constellation?
These are the two parts of the head of a comet.
What are the nucleus and the coma?
This is what you call asteroids in a group.
What is a family of asteroids?
This is why stars appear to move in the night sky.
What is the rotation of the earth?
A gap between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This is a star that doesn’t move with respect to the earth’s rotation.
What is the North Star?
This is the theoretical location for new comets that no one has ever seen or found any evidence for.
What is the Oort Cloud?
These are three asteroids in the Trojan family.
What are Hektor, Achilles, Paris, Aneas, Odysseus, Agamemnon ... and more
This is the Copernican model that the sun is in the center of the solar system.
What is the Heliocentric Model?
The two things that determine the brightness of a star.
What are 1.) distance from earth and 2.) magnitude of the star?
This indicates the surface temperature of a star.
What can you tell from a star’s color?
This is how we know that the universe is probably young.
What are short-period comets?
(comets that have a small orbit)
This is probably how the dinosaurs became extinct.
What is 'through an inability to adapt to the climate after the flood'?