Stars
What are the clouds of gas and dust that stars form from called?
A nebula
What is the most massive thing in our solar system?
Our sun
What do you call a living thing that can survive in a harsh environment or situation?
Extremophile
What does NASA stand for?
National Aeronautics & Space Administration
What was Sarah's special chair for?
Painting
What do you call a star bigger than our sun that burns blue?
High mass star
Liquid water, life, oxygen rich atmosphere/breathable air, in goldilocks zone
Give three examples of extremophiles
Tardigrade
Barrel Cactus
Penguin
Metal eating bacteria
Lichen
Tube worm
What was the probe that took pictures of planets and has now left our solar system?
Voyager 1
What is the name of the smallest unit of measurement we have?
Planck length
List the three things that make a planet a planet.
Round (sphere shaped)
Clear their neighborhood/orbit (not in an asteroid belt)
Name all five dwarf planets
Ceres, makemake, haumea, eris, pluto
What do you call a planet that's not in our solar system? What if that planet is also in that perfect distance away from the sun so it's not too hot or too cold?
Exoplanet in the Goldilocks zone
What is the name of Amelia's spaceship?
Stargazer beta!
What do they call the time from when a spacecraft enters Mars' atmosphere to the time NASA knows if it landed successfully or not?
Seven minutes of terror
What do you call the distance from Earth to the sun, which people use as a unit of measurement in space?
Hint: the acronym for it is AU
Astronomical unit
Which planet has winds that go faster than the speed of sound?
Neptune
What do you call the special curled up dehydrated state that tardigrades go into to survive?
Tun state
Name two Mars rovers
Curiosity, Perseverance
What is the name of the black hole at the center of our galaxy?
Saggitarius A
What are the four stages of a star life cycle?
Hydrogen burning, helium burning, supernova, supernova remnant
Name three of Jupiter's moons
Io, S2003, J2, Ganymede, Europa
What is the name of the special mission probe going to Saturn's moon Titan?
Dragonfly
Give three different examples of types of spacecraft
Rocket, rover, sounding rocket, satellite, space station
What was the name of the NASA mathematician who saved the Apollo 13 mission?
Katherine Johnson