Planets 🌍
Earth's atmosphere protects it from the sun's:
What is radiation?
Color of the sun.
What is white?
Most abundant element in the universe.
What is hydrogen?
A habitable artificial satellite that orbits the Earth at an average altitude of approximately 420 kilometers. It serves as a research laboratory where astronauts from various countries conduct experiments in microgravity.
What is the International Space Station?
Name of the first dog in space.
Who was Laika?
Used to be a planet, got reclassified as a dwarf planet.
What is Pluto?
Closest star system to ours.
What is Alpha Centauri?
A cloud of gas and dust in outer space, visible in the night sky either as an indistinct bright patch or as a dark silhouette against other luminous matter.
What is a nebula?
The year humans first landed on the moon.
What is 1969?
A doughnut-shaped region of icy objects beyond the orbit of Neptune. It is home to Pluto and most of the known dwarf planets and some comets.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
Mars is nicknamed the red planet due to its high concentration of this element.
What is iron?
Inner most part of a star where energy is generated.
What is the core?
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?
NASA stands for:
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
14th-16th century Central Mexican empire that made calendar systems based off their culture's knowledge of astronomy.
Who were the Aztecs (Mexica)?
What is Saturn?
The sun is this many years old.
What is Sagittarius A?
Who is Sally Ride?
The Big Bang occured approximately this many years ago.
What is 13.7 billion years ago?
The oldest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
Created when a star collapses.
What is a black hole, white dwarf, or neutron stars?
A bright and energetic object powered by a supermassive black hole at the core of a galaxy.
What is a quasar?
How many humans have died in space?
What is three? They were all aboard the Soyuz 11 mission in 1971.
What is an elliptical orbit?