Planets
This planet is famous for its rings.
What is Saturn?
This star is at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This is a region in space with gravity so strong that nothing can escape.
What is a black hole?
This vehicle carries astronauts into space.
What is a rocket?
This galaxy contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This is the name for a group of stars forming a pattern.
What is a constellation?
These objects orbit planets.
What are moons?
This organization leads space missions in the United States.
What is NASA?
This is the path an object takes around another object.
What is an orbit?
This planet is known as the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
This star can tell a traveler which way North is.
What is the North Star or Polaris?
These are chunks of rock that orbit the sun, mostly found between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
Robotic vehicles designed to explore planetary surfaces.
What are Rovers?
This is the name for when the Moon completely covers the Sun.
What is a total solar eclipse?
This is the closest planet to the sun.
What is Mercury?
The color of a star can tell us this about it.
What is its temperature?
Cosmic snowballs of frozen gases, rock, and dust that orbit the Sun.
What is a comet?
This astronaut was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
The hottest planet in our solar system.
What is Venus?
How many planets are there?
8
This is the stage when a massive star explodes at the end of its life.
What is a supernova?
This is space debris that reaches Earth’s surface.
What is a meteorite?
The first country to travel to space.
What is the Soviet Union?
Name 3 constellations.
Orion, big dipper, little dipper, etc.