Our Solar System
This is the largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
This is an expansive system made up of dust, gas clouds, stars, and planets
What is a galaxy?
These are found beyond our solar system and can either orbit stars or be on their own
What are exoplanets?
This is a region in space where not even light can escape.
What is a black hole?
In 1969, this astronaut became the first human to walk on the Moon.
Who is Niels Armstrong?
This is the 3rd planet from the sun
What is Earth?
A part of the Local Group, this is a spiral galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its center, and it contains our solar system.
What is the Milky Way?
These are independent and do not orbit stars; they drift through space.
What are rogue planets?
This is an explosion marking a star's death
What is a supernova?
This U.S. space agency was founded in 1958 and has led most of the country’s space exploration missions, also well known.
What is NASA?
These small rocky bodies orbit the Sun mainly between Mars and Jupiter.
What are asteroids?
These are huge and contain thousands of galaxies, dark matter, and hot gas, they stay together using gravity.
What are galaxy clusters?
This planet is the closest known exoplanet to Earth
What is Proxima B?
This is a streak of light when a rock gets burned up entering our atmosphere
What is a meteor/shooting star
This international orbiting laboratory has been continuously inhabited by humans since the year 2000.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
This dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt was reclassified from planet status in 2006
What is Pluto?
These galaxies are the most common, can contain a supermassive black hole and are surrounded by a disk with spiral arms; examples include the Milky Way.
What are spiral galaxies?
These planets are larger than Earth, but smaller than gas giants
What are Super-Earths?
This is a famous comet visible every 76 years, will return in 2061
What is Haley’s Comet
This space telescope, launched in 1990, has provided stunning images of distant galaxies and nebulae
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
This region beyond Neptune contains many icy bodies and dwarf planets, including Pluto
What is the Kuiper belt?
These are extremely rare with only 1 in 10,000 galaxies, have bright rings and are difficult to observe.
What are ring galaxies?
This is known as the distance from a star to determine the possibility of water and life on planets. This is important when searching for exoplanets.
What is the “ Goldilocks Zone”?
These are bright bursts of energy that come from distant galaxies
What are gamma-ray bursts?
This robotic probe was the first spacecraft to leave the solar system and is still sending data back to Earth.
What is Voyager 1?