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100

How many planets are in the solar system?

What is 8

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What galaxy is Earth in?

What is the Milky Way Galaxy

100

What planet is famous for its rings?

What is Saturn

100

What do you call a group of stars that forms a picture of something?

What is a constellation or asterism

200

What do we call the big explosion that occurs when many stars die?

What is a supernova

200

Which planet is the closest to the sun?

What is mercury

200

What is it called when the moon blocks the sun from the view of Earth?

What is a solar eclipse

200

What two things do stars produce that planets don’t?

What is light and heat

300

Olympus Mons is a large volcanic mountain on which planet?

What is Mars

300

What is the most common type of star found in the Milky Way?

a) red giants

b) white dwarfs

c) red dwarfs

What is red dwarfs

300

What planet is sometimes called the “morning star” or “evening star”?

What is Venus

300

What causes an aurora?

What is solar winds making contact with the atmosphere