Planets
This planet closest to the Sun
What is Mercury?
This constellation contains the North Star
What is Ursa Minor or the Little Dipper?
This mission landed the first humans on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
This violent explosion marks the death of a massive star
What is a supernova?
Where spaghettification might occur
This planet is known as the “Red Planet.”
What is Mars?
This constellation is easily recognized by its three-star belt.
What is Orion?
This telescope, launched in 1990, transformed deep-space astronomy
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
These streaks of light appear when meteoroids burn up in the atmosphere.
What are meteors?
This element is the most abundant in the universe
What is hydrogen?
This planet has the most moons in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This zodiac constellation represents a pair of twins.
What is Gemini?
This Mars rover sang “Happy Birthday” to itself in 2013
What is Curiosity?
This colorful cloud of dust and gas is often a “stellar nursery.
What is a nebula?
This is the layer of Earth’s atmosphere where weather happens.
What is the troposphere?
This planet rotates on its side at about a 98° tilt.
What is Uranus?
This constellation represents a mighty lion
What is Leo?
This space station has been continuously inhabited by astronauts since 2000.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
This happens when the Moon passes between Earth and the Sun
What is a solar eclipse?
This equation expresses the equivalence of mass and energy
What is E = mc²?
This planet has a day longer than its year.
What is Venus?
This constellation contains the bright red star Aldebaran
What is Taurus?
This mission gave us the first close-up images of Pluto.
What is New Horizons?
This is the incredibly bright core of a distant galaxy, powered by a supermassive black hole
What is a quasar?
This is the largest ocean on Earth.
What is the Pacific Ocean?