The Sun and Stars
Our Planetary Neighbors
Objects out there
Distances
IYKYK
100
Our nearest star, about 7.3 light minutes away.
What is the Sun?
100
Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are known as the
What is terrestrial planets?
100
Which object is larger, Pluto or Luna (Earth's moon)?
What is Luna?
100
Proxima Centari is the 2nd closest star from the Earth, around 4 light years away. When we look at this star, the light is actually ________ old
What is 4 years?
100
This sweet baby boy's name is... 
What is Rigby
200
This process powers the Sun by fusing hydrogen atoms into helium.
What is nuclear fusion
200
This planet rotates in retrograde, that is, the opposite direction as the other planets
What is Venus?
200
Order objects from largest to smallest: asteroid, star, galaxy cluster, universe, planet
What is:
-Universe
- Galaxy Cluster
- Star
- Planet
- Asteroid
200
Peter is 37 light years old, so he would have to travel __________ light years away from Earth to see before he was born.
What is 37 light years? (or higher)
200
The bone Mrs. Clary broke and it was terrible and sucked a lot.
Humorous
Radius
Ulna
Femur
What is Radius? 
300
A cloud of gas and matter where stars are "born" and also what they become as they "die"
What is a nebula?
300
This planet is 30 times further from the Sun compared to Earth (30 AU from the sun)
What is Neptune?
300
This object does not meet all four IAU criteria for a planet, because it hasn't cleared its orbital path.
What is a dwarf planet?
300
Which unit of distance is larger: light year or astronomical unit
What is light year?
300
The musical that Calapooia put on this year
What is The Beauty and the Beast?
400
Explain why nuclear fusion in the Sun releases energy.
What is because immense pressure fuses atoms, releasing energy as light and heat?
400
This gas gives both Uranus and Neptune their blue color
What is methane?
400
One of these objects is larger than the other: a galaxy or a solar system.
What is a galaxy?
400
This planet has 4 famous moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
What is Jupiter?
400
Mr. Clary's first name
What is Peter?
500
These two planets are mostly hydrogen and helium
What are Jupiter and Saturn
500
This planet is the smallest of all the planets in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
500
This type of celestial object is born in a nebula and can be found in open or globular clusters.
What is a star?
500
What is a planet with two moons: Phobos and Deimos?
Mars