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This red planet is the fourth planet from the Sun.
What is Mars?
This planet has beautiful rings made up of primarily ice chunks.
What is Saturn?
These are created by energized particles hitting molecules in Earth's atmosphere.
What are aurorae?
The moons Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Callisto are collectively named after this 17th century astronomer.
Who is Galileo?
Those things in space that have tails.
What are Comets?
This hellish planet is the hottest in the solar system.
What is Venus?
This planet was the last one to be discovered, and cannot be seen with the naked eye.
What is Neptune?
This is outermost layer of the Sun's atmosphere is seen best during a Solar Eclipse.
What is the Corona?
This astronomer who has an entire crater named after him discovered the planet Uranus in the year 1781.
Who is William Herschel?
Russia has a weird talent for getting hit by these things, especially in June 30, 1908 in the Tunguska region.
What are asteroids?
This celestial body is 1/400 the size of the Sun, and is also 1/400 the distance between us and the Sun.
What is the Moon?
This great storm has been raging for 356 years now, and is big enough to fit a few Earths in it.
What is the Great Red Spot?
The sun is not in fact powered by diamonds, but by this reaction between atoms in its core.
What is Nuclear Fusion?
This mission successfully landed us on the Moon on July 20, 1969.
What is the Apollo mission?
Those two potato shaped moons that orbit Mars.
What are Phobos and Deimos?
Though it's pretty hot outside, one can still cool off with some ice that can be found in craters on this planet.
What is Mercury?
These two planets were separated at birth, and are nearly identical in size and composition.
What are Uranus and Neptune?
The Carrington Event in September of 1859 was caused by the Sun emitting one of these.
What is a Coronal Mass Ejection?
These two rovers launched in 2003 met their lonely end on the Martian surface, with the last transmission saying "My battery is low, and it's getting dark..."
What are Spirit and Opportunity?
Despite appearances, this planet is not drunk, it just sits on its side like that naturally.
What is Uranus?
Instead of saying "One small step for a man...", they probably said "Один маленький шаг для робота," when they landed on this planet.
What is Venus?
Ice volcanoes on this moon are partially responsible for creating an entire ring around Saturn.
What is Enceladus?
After the sun exhausts all of its hydrogen fuel, it's going to swell to a size big enough to swallow the Earth during this phase of its life.
What is the Red Giant phase?
After a heated race and much international debate, these astronomers and mathematicians share joint credit for the discovery of Neptune.
Who are John Couch Adams and Urbaine Le Verrier?
That's no moon! That's a battlestation- Well, actually it is just a moon.
What is Mimas?