What is the most common constellation?
What is the big dipper
How many planets are in the solar system?
8
What do we call man-made objects that orbit the earth and photograph space?
What is a satellite
A. Light
B. Sound
How many moons are in the solar system?
A.4
B.239
C.181
C.181
What is the largest star called?
What is a red giant
What is the largest planet?
What is jupiter
What was the longest time spent in space?
A.437 days (about a year and 2 months)
B. 654 days (about a year and 9 months)
C. 763 days (about 2 years and 1 month)
A. 437 days (about a year and 2 months)
What force from the sun pulls on Earth and keeps it in orbit?
What is gravity
What is the name of our galaxy?
What is the milky way
Shooting stars are actually what?
What is a meteor
Which planet is closest to the sun?
What is mercury
Who was the first person to walk on the moon?
Who is Neil Armstrong
What do astronomers study?
What is the stars
What is the gravitational pull so strong that even light cant escape it called?
What is a black hole
Polaris is the scientific name for what star?
What is the north star
How long does it take earth to rotate once on its axis?
What is 24 hours
What was the last NASA flight mission to the moon named?
A. Apollo 19
B. Henry 10
C. Apollo 17
C. Apollo 17
What Italian astronomer was the first to study the stars?
Who is Galileo
What direction does the earth rotate?
What is eastward
What is a super bright star called?
What is a nova
Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on which planet?
What is mars
How many space shuttles has NASA sent up to space?
A. 64
B. 27
C. 135
135
What do you call the layer of gas the blocks the sun's harmful ray?
What is the ozone layer
How old is the universe?
What is 13.8 billion years