Planets!
This planet is the "3'rd rock from the sun". It has a large amount of water on its surface and is the only planet that currently has conditions which sustain life as we know it.
What is Earth?
The darkest areas on the Sun's surface.
What are sunspots?
These are human-made objects which have been sent into orbit around Earth to relay communications, take pictures, and perform other tasks.
What are satellites?
These are the large bodies that orbit the sun.
This is a non-contact force that acts on objects. If two objects are placed in space, they will be drawn towards each other by this force.
What is Gravity?
Small and recently re-classified as a dwarf planet, this is the littlest planet found furthest out in our solar system.
What is Pluto?
The sun and all of the bodies that orbit around it form this.
What is the Solar System?
This space telescope has made only 3 full orbits.
What is the Hubble Space telescope?
This is at the centre of our galaxy.
What is a supermassive black hole?
This is a small, orbiting body made up of dust, ice, and frozen gases. The solid centre of this is its nucleus, and like all objects in the solar system, it orbits the sun.
What is a comet?
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
All objects in the solar system travel around the sun in this kind of orbit that is not circular, but more oval-shaped.
What is an elliptical orbit?
This satellite is 15 billion miles away from Earth and counting.
What is Voyager 1?
This is a chunk of matter that enters our atmosphere and is heated by friction with the air to the point of burning up as it falls towards the Earth.
What is a meteor?
In this process, the nuclei of atoms fuse to form a larger nucleus. (Hint: this is how stars emit energy)
What is nuclear fusion?
This is known as the red planet, and has shown evidence that it may have had microscopic life on it long ago.
What is Mars?
This is the innermost part of the sun where its energy is generated.
What is the core?
This arm is connected to the International Space Station and is named after the country it was developed in.
What is Canadarm2?
The theoretical last stage of a star that emits no heat.
What is a black dwarf star?
This is a large rotating cloud of dust and hydrogen gas.
What is a nebula?
This is the 8th planet from the Sun, and is made of mostly hyrdrogen, helium, and methane gas.
What is Neptune?
The Latin name for the sun.
What is Sol?
This item has been orbiting the planet since July 16, 1969. It belonged to a famous astronaut.
Neil Armstrong's barf bag.
This is the term used to describe a star that has stabalized.
What is a main-sequence star?
This is the closest star system to our own.
What is Alpha Centauri?