Our Solar System
A group of stars that form specific patterns as viewed from Earth.
What are constellations?
The biggest and brightest star closest to Earth.
What is the Sun?
The planet now considered a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
One of the largest U.S. space shuttle programs that has been around for over 20 years.
What is NASA?
The galaxy that contains Earth and the Sun.
What is the Milky Way?
The Earth's only natural satellite.
What is DA MOON?
The largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The telescope that can detect stars that are 13 billion or more light years away.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Clusters of stars that contain millions of stars, clouds, dust, and gas
What are galaxies?
The season when a hemisphere is angled towards the Sun.
What is summer?
The planet known for rings around it made of ice and rock.
What is Saturn?
This vehicle has three main units: the orbiter, the external tank, and two solid rocket boosters.
What is a space shuttle?
Astronomers have found evidence that some stars have collapsed forming a powerful gravitational field that no light or radiation can escape.
What is a black hole?
The Moon orbits Earth once every ______ days.
What is 28 days?
The three gases that Earth's atmosphere contains.
What are oxygen, nitrogen, and carbon dioxide?
This space laboratory is permanently orbiting Earth at a distance of 200 miles (323 km).
What is The International Space Station?
A neutron star that has a magnetic field billions of times more powerful than Earth's magnetic field.
What is a magnetar?
The Sun is one of the estimated (#) ______ stars in the universe.
What is 1024?
The planet that has polar ice caps and once had running water.
What is Mars?
The Voyager spacecraft will reach the first star in their interstellar voyage in _______ years.
What is 40,000 years?