Planets
What is the largest planet?
Jupiter
What is a massive, luminous ball of plasma held together by gravity?
Who was the first person in space? OR What country was the first person in space from?
Yuri Gararin OR Russia
A small, rocky body orbiting the sun is called what?
Asteroid
A large system of stars, gas, dust, and dark matter bound together by gravity is called what?
A galaxy
What planet is known as the red planet?
Mars
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is also the name of a type of what?
Candy bar/chocolate bar
What spacecraft took humans to the moon?
Apollo 11
Where is the asteroid belt?
Between Mars & Jupiter
Name a type of galaxy
Spiral galaxy
Elliptical galaxy
Irregular galaxy
What planet is has the most moons?
Saturn
What star is closest to Earth?
Proxima Centauri
Perserverance is the name of a NASA what?
Mars rover
What happens when an asteroid enters Earth's atmosphere?
It burns up and creates a meteor shower
Our home galaxy, the Milky Way, is what shape?
Spiral
What planet is closest to the sun?
Mercury
What is an explosion of a dying star that releases immense energy called?
Supernova
What is the purpose of the International Space Station?
Iinternational research cooperation in space
Ceres is the name of what?
The largest asteroid
How many galaxies are estimated to be in the universe?
Around 2 trillion
What planet has rings?
Saturn
What is a region of space where the gravitational pull is so strong that not even light can escape?
Black Hole
Approximately 299,792 kilometers (or 186,282 miles) per second is the speed of what?
Light
What is the difference between an asteroid and a comet?
Asteroid: made of rock and metal
Comet: ice and dust
A form of dark matter that does not emit light or energy, making it invisible, but has mass and gravitational effects is called what?
Dark matter