Solar System
This is the center of the solar system. The planets revolve around it.
What is the sun?
This planet is fifth from the sun. It is the largest planet and is best known for its beautiful colours and its "Great Red Spot."
What is Jupiter?
These objects produce ad give off their own heat and light.
What are stars?
This is how long it takes the Earth to circle the sun.
What is 365 days?
These are chunks of rocks and metal that orbit between the planets.
What are the asteroids?
This is now a "dwarf planet"
What is Pluto?
These have bright heads and long, shining tails. They shine partly because of light absorbed and re-radiated from the sun and partly because of reflected sunlight.
What are comets?
This body travels around Earth. It is known as Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
These are loose collections of rocks and frozen gases that orbit between the planets.
What are comets?
This planet is sixth from the sun. It is best known for the beautiful system of rings that circle the planet.
What is Saturn?
This is another name for the study of space?
What is astronomy?
This planet is 8th from the sun. It can only be seen through a telescope. Little is known about this distant planet.
What is Neptune?
What is the solar system?
This planet is closest to the Sun.
What is Mercury?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that, to some people, seem to be in the shapes of pictures.
What are constellations?
This is how long it takes the moon to circle Earth
What is 27 days?
This is a body that does not give off light oft its own. It reflects the light of the sun.
This planet is called the morning or evening star, because it appears in the sky just after sunset and before sunrise.
What is Venus?
This is the galaxy that we live in.
What is the Milky Way?
This planet is seventh from the sun. Unlike other planets, this planet lies on its side. It is greenish in colour and has nine faint ring with five moons orbiting the planet.
What is Uranus?