Stars
This is the name of the 4.6 billion year old star at the center of our solar system.
What is the Sun?
This is the hottest planet with temperatures ranging from 440° to 480° C.
What is Venus?
This planet has the most moons and rings visible with a telescope.
What is Saturn?
This is the galaxy in which our solar system resides.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
This mission landed the first men, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on the moon.
What is Apollo 11?
These are dark, cooler areas that appear on the surface of the Sun.
This planet has a solar year of 365.25 Earth days and a solar day of 24 Earth hours.
What is Earth?
This planet has the largest volume of all the planets in our solar system and a storm named the Great Red Spot.
What is Jupiter?
This is what we call a meteorite as it is burning through the Earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
The stages before the Apollo missions were these two sets of missions.
What are the Mercury project and the Gemini program?
An area of the celestial sphere in which a group of visible stars form a perceived pattern.
What is a constellation?
In another life, this small but swift planet was known as Hermes.
BONUS: Why was this name appropriate for the planet Mercury?
What is Mercury?
Mercury moves quickly across the sky, making it the fastest of the planets in its orbit around the Sun.
This planet appears to rotate on its side.
What is Uranus?
This body has not cleared an orbital path, but it has a nearly round form due to gravity, orbits the Sun, and is not a moon.
What is a dwarf planet?
This was the first manned mission by NASA after the Apollo 1 tragedy.
What is Apollo 7?
A red giant could either have its outer layer blown away and become a white dwarf or it could implode and result in this.
What is a supernova?
Because it is covered in iron oxide dust, this planet has been nicknamed the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
Voyager 2 is the only spacecraft to visit this planet thus far.
What is Neptune?
About 13.8 billion years ago, this event is theorized to have happened.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
NASA stands for this.
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
This phase of the life cycle of a star has never happened to our knowledge.
This is a collection of space debris that is made of carbon, silicate, or metals which orbits the Sun between Mars and Jupiter.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This is a vast region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune, stretching from about 30 to 55 astronomical units.
What is the Kuiper Belt?
These small chunks of ice and dust vaporize as they approach the Sun, often resulting in a tail that trails behind it.
What is a comet?
This place is important because it enables unique scientific research in microgravity, fosters international cooperation, inspires education, advances technology, and helps prepare for future deep space missions.
What is the International Space Station?