Outer Space
It is the scientific study of stars and outer space.
What is Astronomy?
How long the earth takes to travel all the way around the sun.
What is one year?
They are straight beams of light or energy.
What are rays?
Hot balls of gas that give off light and heat
What are stars?
It is a scientist who studies astronomy.
What is an astronomer?
Everything in space taken together, including planets, stars, and space itself
What is the universe?
It is the place in the distance where the land or a body of water appears to meet the sky.
What is the horizon?
It is a shaded spot created when light is blocked from an area behind or under an object.
What is a shadow?
A rock that flies through space; sometimes mistakenly called a “shooting star”
What are meteors?
He was the first to use science to explain that Earth actually revolves around the sun.
Who was Nicolas Copernicus?
It is a large object in space that revolves around a star for light.
What is a planet?
It is the bubble of air that surrounds the earth.
What is the atmosphere?
It is the direction from where you see the sun coming up over the horizon.
What is the east?
Certain groups of stars in the night sky that seem to form specific shapes or outlines of “pictures”
What are constellations?
He is the father of modern astronomy.
Who si Galileo?
It is a regular and repeated path that one object takes around another, usually in space, such as the path that the Earth makes around the sun.
What is an orbit?
The movement of the Earth as it spins around its axis or center. This is what causes day and night.
What is rotation?
It is the term used to describe the moment the sun goes down over the horizon in the west.
What is sunset?
Any objects, including planets, stars, comets, or meteors, that can be found in outer space
What are celestial bodies?
Tube-like tools with lenses and mirrors used for magnifying objects in space in order to observe them
What are telescopes?
It is the force or pull of objects down to Earth or toward each other.
What is gravity?
It is a term used to describe one complete orbit around the sun.
What is a revolution?
It is the kind of matter that the sun is made of.
What is hydrogen gas?
The bright star at the end of the handle of the Little Dipper.
What is the Polaris, or the North Star?
Special buildings astronomers go to in order to study the stars
What are observatories?