Stars
An incredibly dense star made only of neutrons.
What is a neutron star?
The name of the galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
A large rocky or metallic object orbiting around a star.
What is an asteroid?
The names of the 8 planets in our solar system in order away from the sun.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
Mercury ________ around the sun.
What is orbit?
The first stage of a star.
What is a nebula?
When a planet or planets orbit around a star.
What is a planetary system?
The largest planet in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
When Earth does one complete orbit around the sun.
What is a revolution?
The star size that uses up its energy faster.
What is a larger star?
What is an irregular galaxy?
When two stars orbit each other.
What is a binary star system?
What is Earth?
Everything in the solar system is in place because of the sun's _______.
What is gravity?
The four potential final stages of a star.
What is a black dwarf, a supernova, a neutron star, or a black hole?
The older type of galaxy.
What is an elliptical galaxy?
A rocky or metallic object from space that then crashes onto the surface of a planet.
What is a meteorite?
What is Venus?
Earth spinning on its axis.
What is rotation?
The next phase of the sun.
What is a red giant?
The approximate number of galaxies in the universe.
What is 100-200 billion?
A planet not within the solar system?
What is an exoplanet?
The two planets without moons.
What are Mercury and Venus?
What determines how old the image you see through a telescope is based on the distance of the object.
What is the speed of light?