The Sun
The life of a star depends on the stars what?
Mass
What is the name of the galaxy that contains Earth?
What is the Milky Way Galaxy
Planets that are rocky and dense and found within the inner solar system are referred to as this term?
What is terrestrial
how do most astronomers explain the way the universe may have begun
The big bang theory
Why is Mars known as the “Red Planet?”
Mars has a chemical called iron oxide (rust) in its soil that causes the surface to take on a reddish appearance.
All stars are made-up of these two gases. They are used to create energy through the process of nuclear fusion.
What is hydrogen and helium
what is the moon called when the lighted part increases?
Waxing
Who flew on two missions on the challengers space shuttle.
Sally Ride
what two things were produced from the Big Bang
Energy and Matter
what planets sky glows at its poles? Like our northern lights?
What is Saturn.
How long does it take for light from the sun to get to us?
8 minutes
What will happen to our sun in the next stage of its life?
Red Giant - The star's outer layers will expand and become 100X larger than our sun. At this point it will engulf Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars and probably tear apart the gas giants and evaporate Saturn's rings. Doesn't that sound like a lovely time in our Solar System.
what eclipse has the arrangement of sun moon earth
Soar Exlipse
what were the first two elements created?
Hydrogen and Helium
What is Jupiter’s “Great Red Spot" and Neptune's "Great Dark Spot"?
Both are huge storms (Hurricane) that have been circulating around the planet for hundreds of years.
Identify the stages of our star's life from beginning to end.
What is a nebula, protostar, medium mass star, red giant, planetary nebula, white dwarf.
what kind of tide do we have during a new moon
spring tide
Name the eight planets in order from the sun starting with the closest to the sun.
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
who first proposed the Big Bang theory
Georges Lemaitre
how long is one day on Venus in earth days
243 earth days.
what holds our solar system together
suns gravity
Stars 10 times larger than our sun can take an alternative path in life. What could be the end result after the star explodes (supernova)? (what's next)
It could become black hole, or neutron star.
what NASA project was designed to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter, Saturn, and Saturn's rings.
Voyager 1977
The big bang theory supports the thought that the universe is still....
expanding
This planet is blue who has moons named after Shakespeare's characters.
What is Uranus.