The Moon
The name for something that orbits a planet or a star.
What is a satellite?
Star patterns in the sky.
What are constellations?
Creates day and night on Earth.
What is rotation?
An optical instrument using lenses, curved mirrors, or a combination of both to observe distant objects in the sky. Aloha, to the biggest one on Earth.
What is a telescope?
The distance from the Earth to the Sun.
What is 147 200 000 km?
The side of the moon we never see from Earth.
What is the dark side of the moon?
The brightest star in Ursa Minor.
What is Polaris?
Takes 365.24199 days to complete.
What is Earth's orbit?
A device used to safely view solar eclipses. It is usually made from a shoebox with a tiny hole.
What is a pinhole camera?
The distance from the Earth to the Moon.
What is 384 400 km?
The moon and sun's gravitational pull affects this water movement.
What are tides?
Constellation in the northern sky known as The Big Bear.
What is Ursa Major?
On Venus, it takes 5,832 hours. Just enough time for a nap or three!
What is one day or Venus' length of rotation?
Provides information about clouds, oceans, land, air, forest fires, etc. These are also important for cell phone use, spying, and GPS.
What are man-made satellites?
The approximate age of the universe.
What is almost 14 000 000 000 years?
The adjective used to describe the growth of the moon from a new moon to a full moon.
What is waxing?
Rigel and Betelgeuse.
Creates Earth's seasons.
What is orbit?
It turned 30 years old in 2020. It orbits above Earth's atmosphere and sends NASA amazing photos of deep space. It travels about 10 km per second.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The approximate age of the Earth.
What is 4.543 billion years?
The order of the phases of the moon.
What are: New Moon, Waxing Crescent, first quarter, waxing gibbous, full moon, waning gibbous, third quarter, waning crescent.
The middle of the "W" points to the North Star or Polaris.
What is Cassiopeia
Elliptical route the Earth travels at approximately 30 km per second!
What is Earth's orbit?
NASA created this probe to "touch" the sun. It succeeded in its mission in April of 2021.
What is the Parker Solar Probe?
The number of Earths that could fit into the Sun.
What is about 1 000 000?