Stars! Stars! Stars!
The process that powers stars involving atoms
What is nuclear fusion?
"Balls of gas burning billions of miles away" - Disney's The Lion King
What are stars?
8
What is the number of offical planets in our solar system?
The rover that landed on Mars in 2021
What is the Perseverance Rover?
First to use a telescope to observe the sky and space, discovered craters and mountains on the Moon, discovered multiple of Jupiter's moons
Who is Galileo Galilei?
A giant cloud of dust and gas in space
What is a nebula?
Astronomical object with a gravitational pull so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it
What is a black hole?
The 6th planet from the sun
What is Saturn?
The mission that first got man to the moon
What is Apollo 11?
Formulated the model with the sun at the center of the solar system rather than Earth
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The hottest kind of star color
What is blue?
A ring of icy bodies just outside of Neptune's orbit
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The planets the asteroid belt lies between
What are Jupiter and Mars?
The first reusable spacecraft
What is the Space Shuttle?
Established the Law of Universal Gravitation and the 3 Laws of Motion
Who is Isaac Newton?
The star system, OTHER THAN THE SUN, closest to Earth
What is the Proxima Centauri system?
1. Small space rock in space
2. Small space rock in Earth's atmosphere
3. Small space rock that has landed on Earth
1. Meteoroid
2. Meteor
3. Meteorite
The hottest planet in our solar system
What is Venus?
The space station that will orbit the moon
What is the Gateway?
German astronomer who discovered three major laws of planetary motion (Bonus: What are the three laws?)
Who is Johannes Kepler? (Bonus: 1. Planets move in elliptical orbits with the sun as a focus, 2. A Planet covers the same area of space in the same amount of time no matter where it is in its orbit, and 3. A planet's orbital period is proportional to the size of its orbit, its semi-major axis)
The name of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy
What is Sagittarius A*?
An extremely dense object in space, formed when a massive star explodes as a supernova, leaving behind a core composed almost entirely of a specific subatomic particle due to the immense gravitational pressure
What is a neutron star?
The time it takes light to get from the Sun to Earth
What is 8 minutes?
The NASA mission to explore Pluto and the Kuiper Belt
What is New Horizons?
Discovered that the Universe is expanding, created a galaxy classification scheme, discovered that many of what his predecessors thought were nebulae were actually galaxies
Who is Edwin Hubble?