Similarities
True or False? Planets and stars are all the same size.
False
These travel in an orbit around a star, like our sun.
Planets.
True or False? Stars revolve around things.
False.
You are traveling in a car trip to go to New York City to visit your great aunt. When would you see planets and stars in the sky?
At night time.
The rhyme 'My very educated mother just served us nachos' - tells us what?
This rhyme tells us the order of the planets. (Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.)
Planets have to reflect light, but stars don't. How are we able to see stars?
Stars make their own light.
If you were able to travel to the inside of the middle of the planet or star you would find this...
A very hot middle core
How many planets are in our solar system?
There are eight planets.
Some stars have this type of reaction in their cores, where hydrogen burns. What kind of reaction - Chemical, Physical, or Nuclear?
Nuclear.
What are stars and some planets made of?
They are made up of gases and dust.
Planets have rings, stars don't. Name two of the planets that have rings.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune.
Planets form around a star that already existed, but stars form around what?
They form around a cloud of gas.