Planets
This planet is closest to the sun.
What is Mercury?
These people train many years to be able to travel into space.
What are astronauts?
This celestial body is known as Earth's satellite.
What is the moon?
These objects give off their own light and heat.
What are stars?
This allows astronomers to view objects that are too far away to be seen by the naked eye.
What is a telescope?
Called the morning or evening star, this planet appears in the sky just after sunset or before sunrise.
What is Venus?
This man was the first Canadian to travel to space.
Who is Chris Hadfield?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that seem (to some people) to be in the shape of pictures.
What are constellations?
These are patterns of stars in the sky that seem (to some people) to be in the shape of pictures.
What are constellations?
This Russian man-made satellite was the first to go to space.
What was Sputnik?
There is a red spot on this largest planet in our solar system.
What is Jupiter?
What is Earth?
This is the name we give to our galaxy.
What is the Milky Way?
These have bright heads and long, shining tails.
What are comets?
This celestial camera has sent images to Earth since 1990.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
In 2006, scientists decided that this celestial body no longer qualifies as a planet.
What is Pluto?
This spacecraft exploded very shortly after takeoff on January 28, 1986.
What was the Challenger?
This is the name given to the changes we see in the Moon over the course of a month.
What is a moon phase?
These chunks of rock and metal orbit the sun between the planets.
What are asteroids?
This orbits the Earth 16 times per day.
What is the International Space Station?
The 4 outer planets are made mostly of this.
What is gas?
This planet takes 164.8 Earth years to orbit the sun.
What is Neptune?
This happens when, at just the right moment, the Moon passes between the Sun and Earth.
What is a solar eclipse?
KBO is the short form for this.
What is a Kuiper Belt Object?
Chris Hadfield delivered and attached this to the ISS on his first visit in 2001.
What is the Canadarm?