What two gases make up the sun?
What is helium and hydrogen
Which planet is furthest from the sun?
What is a chunk of rock before it enters the earth's atmosphere?
What is a meteor
Who created the geocentric theory
Who is Ptolemy
Which is the north star?
What is Polaris
What is the visible layer of the sun?
What is the Photosphere
Which planet's axis is tilted on its side?
What is Uranus
What is a chunk of rock that enters the earth's atmosphere?
What are Meteorites
Who created the Law of Universal Gravitation
Who is Isaac Newton
The hottest stars are what color
What is blue?
What is the upper part of the sun's atmosphere?
What is the Corona
What nickname given to the four outer planets refers to what they're mostly made of?
Gas giants
Where is the asteroid belt?
What is Between Mars and Jupiter
Who created the Heliocentric theory
Who is Copernicus
What does the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram measure
What is size and temperature
What is the lower part of the sun's atmosphere?
What is the chromosphere
Which planet has the fastest rotation?
What is Jupiter
What is a ball of dust and ice that gives off a tail as it orbits the sun?
What is a Comet
Who discovered elliptical orbits, laws of planetary motion
What is Leo the Lion major star
What is Regulus
Which feature of the photosphere are tiny "bubbles" caused by convection cells?
What are granules
The hottest planet, thick atmosphere, brightest planet
What is Venus
True or False: comets have short orbits, lasting no more than thirty years
False
Who first believed the earth was the center of the universe
Who is Artistotle
What are Orions three stars
Betelgeuse, Bellatrix, and Rigel