Planets & Moons
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
He was the first person to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
This is the name of our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
Planets that are rocky and dense and found within the inner solar system are referred to as this term?
What is terrestrial?
These groups of stars form recognizable patterns in the night sky?
What are constellations?
Known for its rings, this planet is the second-largest in the solar system.
What is Saturn?
This was the first human-made object to reach space in 1957.
What is Sputnik 1?
Identify the four major types of galaxies.
What is spiral, elliptical, lenticular, and irregular?
Large chuck of ice, dust, gasses, and rock that orbit the sun. They are sometimes referred to as "dirty snowballs"
What are comets?
This is the term for the brightness of a star as seen from Earth?
What is apparent magnitude?
This red planet is home to the largest volcano in the solar system.
What is Mars?
NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on this planet in 2004.
What is Mars?
What is a subtype of spiral galaxies?
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
A chunk of rock from outer space that burns up in the atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
This kind of explosion marks the death of a massive star?
What is a supernova?
This dwarf planet lies beyond Neptune and was once considered the ninth planet.
What is Pluto?
This space telescope launched in 1990 changed the way we see the universe.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
What is the closest galaxy to the Milky Way?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Name the eight planets in order from the sun starting with the closest to the sun?
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
This colorful cloud of gas and dust is often where new stars are born?
What is a nebula?
This moon of Jupiter is thought to have a subsurface ocean and might support life.
What is Europa?
This private company became the first to send astronauts to the ISS in 2020.
What is SpaceX?
Galaxies can collide and merge in a process that may trigger intense star formation, known as this.
What is a starburst?
Distances within the Solar System can be measured in what two ways?
What is astronomical units and by the speed of light? (light minutes, light years, etc)
These stars are extremely dense and emit beams of radiation as they spin rapidly?
What are pulsars?