Our Solar System
The amount of planets in our solar system.
What is 8 planets?
(bonus points if the 5 dwarf-planets are mentioned)
The star located in the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
The planet that the "Great Red Spot" is located on, also known as the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
The closet satellite launch point from us.
What is Vandenberg Space Force?
A celestial object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing can escape it, and anything that comes near it is immediately vacuumed inside of it.
What is a Black Hole?
The galaxy our solar system is located in.
What is the milky way galaxy?
The explosion of a star.
What is a supernova?
The hottest planet in our solar system, also known as the Earths twin/sister.
What is Venus?
The largest and most powerful telescope in space.
What is the James Webb telescope?
The difference between a meteor and a meteorite.
What is a meteor doesn't land on earth, a meteorite does?
The "backyard" of our Solar system, a thick cloud of icy particles surrounding our Solar system.
What is the Oort Cloud?
Two or more stars orbiting around each other.
What is a binary star system?
The gas/ice giant that rotates on its side with a thin layer of rings.
What is Uranus?
The amount of rovers on Mars.
What is 6 rovers?
The meaning/root words of astronomy.
What is astro = star/ nomy = specific field of study
The planet that takes the longest to orbit around the sun.
What is Neptune?
(bonus points/candy if the duration of its orbit in earth years is mentioned)
The closet star to Earth besides the sun.
What is Proxima Centauri?
The 3 components that an extraterrestrial object must have in order to be considered a planet.
What is must orbit a star, clear orbit path and a sphere-like shape?
What does ISS stand for?
What is the International Space Station?
Stand up and demonstrate the difference between rotation and revolution!!
What is you get the points if I like it?
Name the five dwarf planets in our solar system.
What is Ceres, Pluto, Haumea, Make make, and Eris?
The brightest star in the night sky.
What is Sirius?
(bonus candy/points if you can name the constellation its in!)
The estimated amount of planets in our entire universe.
What is 100 sextillion? (21 rows of zeros)
The name of the telescope that orbits around the Earth, capturing daily images of our universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
A point in outer space where every object in the entire universe is slowly being pulled towards.
What is the Great Attractor?