Basic Astronomy
This is the study of the stars and universe?
What is astronomy
How many Moons does Mars have?
What is 2 Moons.
_______was one of the first people to use a telescope to look at the planets and moons in our Solar System.
Who is Galileo
What do we call recognizable star patterns.
What are constellations?
The Milky Way is classified at what kind of galaxy?
What is a spiral galaxy.
How long is a the rotation period on Earth?
What is 24 hours.
The moon phase that is necessary to potentially view a lunar eclipse
What is a full moon
This part of the solar system is located between the inner and outer planets.
What is the Asteroid Belt
The Sun is which color?
Yellow/orange
What is the name of the closest galaxy to the Milky Way?
What is Andromeda.
The time it takes for the earth to orbit around the sun.
What is 365 days.
How long it takes for the moon to orbit the earth.
What is 27 days.
What is the force that keeps planets orbiting the sun?
What is gravity
The north star is also know by this name
What is Polaris?
How old is the Milkway Galaxy?
What is 13.6 billion years old.
which months are the Earth is at perihelion and aphelion?
What is January and July.
During which lunar phases does the Moon look half full?
What are 1st and 3rd Quarter.
Name all the planets of our solar system that have rings.
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune
What type of star will our Sun become at the end of it's life cycle?
What is a white dwarf?
The universe is currently ______________.
Expanding or Collapsing
Expanding
The famous telescope that orbits the Earth and allows observers to see extremely distant objects.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope or the James Webb.
Name the 4 Galilean Moons.
What are Ganymede, Callisto, Europa, Io
Name Mars' 2 Moons.
What is Phobos and Deimos?
Black holes are formed when a star goes ___________ and then ___________________.
Super Nova
Collapses under gravitational pressure.
How big is our Galaxy?
100,000 light years across.