Planets
Fifth from the sun, this is the largest planet. It is best known for it's beautiful colours and its Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
This is the centre of our solar system. The eight planets revolve around it.
What is the Sun?
This is the planet closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
This is the galaxy in which we live.
What is the Milky Way?
Sixth from the Sun, this planet is best known for the beautiful system of rings that encircle it.
What is Saturn?
This body travels around Earth. It is known as Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
Once considered a planet, scientists now call this a "dwarf planet".
What is Pluto?
This is the study of outer space.
What is astronomy?
This planet is eighth from the Sun and can only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distant planet.
What is Neptune?
What are starts?
This consists of the Sun and its family of eight planets.
What is the solar system?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
Unlike other planets, this planet lies on its side. Seventh from the Sun, it is greenish in colour and has nine faint rings and five moons orbiting it.
What is Uranus?
These chunks of rock and metal orbit the Sun between the planets.
What are asteroids?
This is how long it takes Earth to orbit the Sun.
What is 365 days?
The force that attracts a body toward the centre of the Earth, or toward any other physical body having mass.
What is gravity?
Called the morning or evening start, this planet appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise.
What is Venus?
These loose collections of rocks and frozen gases orbit the Sun between the planets.
What are comets?
This is how long it takes the moon to orbit the Earth.
What is 24 hours?
A small body of matter from outer space that enters the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?