The Planets
Largest planet in the solar system; twice as massive as all the other planets combined
What is Jupiter?
A yellow dwarf star at solar system's center.
What is Sun?
Smallest known star, 20-40 km in diameter.
What is a Neutron Star?
A huge collection of gas, dust, and billions of stars that are being held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
Irregular rock fragments orbiting the sun.
What are asteroids?
The planet known as the outermost ice giant
What is Neptune?
Layer where energy radiates outward from core.
What is the Radiative Zone?
Star similar in size to Earth, but very dense.
What is a White Dwarf?
A rotating disk of stars and dust with a dense bulge in the center and several arms spiraling out, appearing like a pinwheel.
What is a spiral Galaxy?
Icy bodies releasing gas or dust, known as dirty snowballs.
What are comets?
The planet popularly known for its beautiful rings which are made up of billions of chunks of ice and rock
What is Saturn?
Outermost layer where plasma cools and rises.
What is the Convective Zone?
Very large star with high luminosity and low temperature.
What is a supergiant?
A galaxy with a shape that varies from nearly circular to very elongated, containing little gas and dust and older stars.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
Bright streak of light from a meteoroid.
What are meteors?
The planet also known as the Red Planet due to its bloody brick-red colored surface mainly because of the presence of iron oxide on rocks
What is Mars?
Process converting hydrogen to helium in core.
What is nuclear fusion?
Star with diameter exceeding Mars' orbit.
What is a hypergiant?
A galaxy that is neither disk-like nor elliptical, with no regular shape, little dust, and many bright young stars.
What is an irregular galaxy?
Cosmological model explaining Universe's origin.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The only planet known to have life
What is Earth?
11-year periodic changes in solar magnetic activity.
What is the solar cycle?
Celestial body producing light and heat via fusion.
What is a star?
A supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way with a mass of about 4 million times that of our Sun.
What is Sagittarius A?
Formation of hydrogen and helium elements.
What is nucleosynthesis?