Astronomy (1)
The North Star is also known as this.
What is Polaris?
A celestial body or artificial device that revolves around a planet.
What is a satellite?
Also known as the red planet due to iron oxidized on its surface.
What is Mars?
The most famous short period comet that is spotted on Earth around every 75 years.
What is Halley's comet?
Clouds of dust and gas found in space.
What is nebulae?
This instrument uses a shadow to tell time.
What is a shadow clock or sundial?
Point at which moon is closest to the Earth.
What is perigee?
A celestial body that orbits the sun that is spherical but does not have enough gravity to clear the neighborhood of its orbit from other space objects.
What is a dwarf planet?
A celestial body that is not a planet, dwarf planet, or celestial body?
What is an SSSB or a small solar-system body?
This astronomer demonstrated that what was thought to be the Andromeda Nebula was the Andromeda galaxy.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
Two lenses placed in a tube that is used to magnify images.
What is a refracting telescope?
When the sun, moon, and Earth are in a direct line with the moon in the middle.
What is a solar eclipse?
A gas giant that is one of the classical planets with a giant red spot on it that is a storm.
What is Jupiter?
A roughly circular region past the planet Neptune that is home to millions of icy objects that orbit the sun.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, is part of this group.
What is the local group?
The English mathematician and scientist that devised the Laws of Motion that help describe our physical world.
Who is Isaac Newton?
When tides are the highest during the new or full moon.
What are spring tides?
What is Uranus?
The theoretical edge of our solar system that is believed to be an enormous group of icy- comet like objects.
What is the Oort Cloud?
Our galaxy is this type of galaxy.
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
The larger the masses are and the shorter the distance between them, the greater the attraction they exert on each other.
What is the Law of Universal Gravitation?
Pieces of rock and dust that cover the moon's surface.
What is regolith?
Dwarf planet that was once misclassified as a planet that is part of the Kuiper belt.
What is Pluto?
The sphere shaped volume of space that is centered around the sun and falls under its influence.
What is the heliosphere?
Distance unit to describe intergalactic space.
What is a parsec?