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The Solar System is heliocentric, meaning this hot star is at the center.
What is the Sun?
The North Star, Polaris, is part of this "major" constellation.
What is Ursa Major or the Big Dipper?
It costs NASA roughly this much (in U.S. dollars) to send one pound of material into space.
What is $10k?
My Very Enthusiastic Mother Just Served Us Noodles is an easy way to remember this.
What is the order of the planets?
Eggbert's mother is this kind of domesticated poultry.
What is a chicken?
If Earth were the size of a grain of sand, the Sun would be the size of this glass sphere.
What is a marble?
Cultures all around the world have different names and legends for these groups of stars.
According to researchers, Earth's moon is estimated to be this many billion years old.
What is 4.5?
This has-been "planet" shares the same name as Mickey Mouse's pet dog.
What is Pluto?
Eggbert's journey to the moon was possible because of this group of small dreamers.
Who are the Summer Reading Kids?
Saturn, roughly 9.6 AUs from the Sun, wears rings made of these two "ingredients."
What are ice and dust?
Modern constellation names come from this ancient civilization.
Who were the ancient Greeks?
The Voyager travels this many AUs per year.
What is 3.8?
These two elements comprise the Moon's makeup.
What are dust and rock?
Oobleck is a mixture of water and this common cooking ingredient.
What is cornstarch?
If the Sun was a marble on the end of a football field, the Earth would be smaller than a grain of sand on this yard line, about six feet away.
What is the 2 yd. line?
Three in-line stars make up this mighty warrior's belt.
Who is Orion?
Before computers and calculators, NASA used these number-crunching machines to do everything from launching rockets to landing on the moon.
What are women?
If the Milky Way was the size of the United States, our Solar System would be the size of this data-containing disc.
What is a CD?
A non-Newtonian fluid is simultaneously ____ and ____.
What is solid and liquid?
An AU is this many miles long.
What is 93 million?
Lilah's constellation was named after her Corgi, named ______.
What is Comfort?
There are more stars visible through a telescope than there are grains of sand on Earth (including deserts, beaches, etc.), which means there's roughly 70 thousand million million million, or 7 followed by this many 0s.
What is 22?
According to NASA researchers, this dark "space pit" makes the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
What is a black hole?
The average rocket needs to produce 7.2 million pounds of this propulsive force to launch.
What is thrust?