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One revolution around the sun takes this many days.
What is 365?
Polaris, a bright star used since ancient days for navigation, is also known by this direction name.
What is the North Star?
This planet is famous for its beautiful rings.
What is Saturn?
Laika, the first animal in space was part of this four legged species.
What is a dog?
This basketball sized satellite was the first manmade object to orbit the Earth.
What is Sputnik 1?
Earth has two of these, one at the "top" and "bottom" of the planet.
What are poles?
This part of the constellation Ursa Major resembles a cooking pot or ladle.
What is the Big Dipper?
This red and stormy planet is the largest in the solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This black and white NASA craft was the first widely used reusable spacecraft.
What is the space shuttle?
These dark objects are so dense, light cannot escape their gravity.
What are black holes?
This liquid substance, made of hydrogen and oxygen, covers 80% of the surface of the Earth.
What is Water?
Draco, this long constellation in the northern sky is named after this fire breathing mythical creature.
What is a dragon?
This dwarf planet that shares a name of a famous yellow Disney dog, used to be considered the 9th planet in the solar system
What is Pluto?
The Apollo moon mission famous for saving itself from disaster was named this unlucky number.
What is 13?
At the end of their lives, some super massive stars explode in huge explosions that have this name.
What is a supernova?
This is the name of the daytime darkening of the sky when the moon partially or totally obscures the sun.
What is a solar eclipse?
Stars are made by gravity from the star's mass compressing hydrogen atoms until they undergo this process, the same found in hydrogen bombs.
What is nuclear fusion?
Unlike every other planet in the solar system, this planet rotates on its side.
What is Uranus?
This man, along with his companions Michael Collins and 'Buzz' Aldrin was the first man to walk on the Moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
When a group of objects burn up in the atmosphere, they streak across the sky in this weather named event.
What is a meteor shower?
This proctective barrier around the Earth is created by the moving of liquid metal deep beneath the Earth's crust.
What is the magnetosphere?
This very bright, giant star appears to follow the constellation Orion the hunter across the sky as a faithful canine companion would.
What is Sirius/dog star?
This unit of measure refers to the distance between the Earth and the Sun, and is abbreviated "AU".
What is Astronomical Unit?
Yuri Gagarin, pilot of the Vostok I mission and first man in space came from this country.
What is Russia?
Halley's and Hale-Bopp are two names given to these long tailed stellar objects, made of ice and rock that orbit the sun.
What are Comets?