Star
A planet's trip around the sun.
What is an Orbit?
Name the outer planets.
What is Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
A cloud of gas and dust in which new stars form.
What is a nebula.
How many days does it take for the moon to revolve the earth?
What is approximately 27 days?
When did astronauts discover Neptune?
What is 1846?
The orbit of a dwarf planet is ___ shaped.
What is an oval?
A gigantic explosion that occurs near the end of the life of some stars.
What is a Supernova.
A spacecraft that gathers data without the crew.
What is a space probe?
it takes 365 1/4 days for the Earth to make one of these around the sun.
What is an Orbit or Revolution.
The largest of neptune's 13 moons is ___.
What is Triton?
An explosive eruption of waves and particles into space.
What is a solar flare.
This inner planet is very hot and dry but has an atmosphere made of swirling clouds.
What is a venus?
The moon's revolution around the Earth takes about ___ days.
What is 27.3?
Smallest of the gas giants, this planet can hold up to ten earths.
What is Neptune.
A frozen mass of different types of smushed together ice and dust, orbiting the Sun.
What is a Comet?
What is the outermost layer on the sun?
What is Corona?
The reddish brown material found in Mars.
What is iron oxide?
When the North Pole is tilted away from the sun, it is ____ in the northern hemisphere.
What is Winter?
This planet is famous for its many rings.
What is Saturn.
When meteors burn up, it creates a part of light behind it called a___.
What is a Streak?
The constellation the Little Dipper contains the star called ___.
What is Polaris?
The Martian day is called ____ and lasts just ___ minutes longer than Earth day.
What is Sol and 40 minutes?
In what direction do stars, the moon, and the sun appear to rise & set as the Eart rotates on its imaginary axis?
What is East to West(Counter Clockwise when you are facing North)?
Saturns atmosphere mostly consists of ___ and ___.
What is hydrogen & helium?
Sometimes, earth passes through a group of comets. The result is a ___ ____.
What is a meteor shower?