Planets
This is the smallest and fastest planet in our solar system
What is Mercury?
This NASA program came between the Mercury and Apollo programs.
What is the segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can see?
This is the name for a group of stars that appear to form a specific pattern in the night sky
What is a constellation?
These are the names of Mars' two moons.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
This planet has a "Great Red Spot".
What is Jupiter?
This private company has supported NASA in recent missions to the International Space Station (ISS)
What is SpaceX?
These are the colors (from longest to shortest wavelength) of the visible light spectrum
What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet?
This is the number of official constellations
88
This is the moon phase that comes right before a Full Moon.
What is Waxing Gibbous?
This is the hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
This line marks the border between the Earth's atmosphere and outer space.
What is the Karman Line?
This was the first space telescope when it was launched on the Shuttle Discovery in 1990.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This is the term used to describe a star's brightness.
What is magnitude?
These four moons of Jupiter are known as the Galilean moons
What are Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto?
These two planets have a retrograde spin
What are Venus and Uranus?
This was the date on which Congress established NASA
July 29, 1958
This type of light (EM radiation) has the longest wavelength and lowest energy.
What are radio waves?
This is the final phase in the life cycle of a massive star.
What is a black hole or neutron star?
384,000 km or 238,900 miles
What is the distance between Earth and the Moon?
What is 274?
This NASA mission was the first one launched from Kennedy Space Center
What was Apollo 4 (11/9/1967)?
This is the world's largest Refractor Telescope
What is the Yerkes Observatory (located in Williams Bay, WI)?
This 2nd magnitude star is important because it is the only star that does not appear to change its place in the sky
What is Polaris or the North Star?
This is the approximate age of the moon
What is 4.5 billion years?