Things in Space
Glowing balls of gas
Stars
The invisible tilted line from the North Pole to the South Pole
Axis
The star at the centre of our solar system
Sun
A person who is trained to work in space
Astronaut
CSA
Canadian Space Agency
A dead star with extremely strong gravity that pulls in everything, including light.
Blackhole
This takes 24 hours to complete
Rotation
Planet with rings around it
Saturn
17 year old who discovered a new planet
Wolf Cukier
The first Canadian to do a spacewalk
Chris Hadfield
Groups of stars and gas that move through the universe together.
Galaxy
This takes 365 days to complete
Revolution
What holds our planets in orbit around the sun?
Acronym of the satellite used to discover a new planet
TESS
International Space Station
The Big Dipper is an example of one of these
Constellation
The line around the centre of the Earth
Equator
Number of planets in the Solar System
8
The speed that a spaceship orbits at
17500 mph
True
These are most commonly found in our solar system between Mars and Jupiter
Asteroids
This word means half of the Earth. There are Northern, Southern, Eastern and Western ones.
Hemisphere
Chunk of ice that follows a long, elliptical orbit around the sun
Neil Armstrong
How often a sunrise and sunset happen on the International Space Station
45 minutes