Space
This is the vast, empty area where everything exists.
What is space?
A scorching ball of gas in the sky.
What is a star?
This is the spinning motion of the Earth on its axis.
What is rotation?
The circles on the moon are known as this.
What are craters?
The measure of how bright an object looks.
This is the most powerful and biggest space telescope ever made.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
This is the reason stars appear brighter the closer they are to the Earth.
What is apparent brightness?
It takes Earth 365 days to do this.
What is revolve around the sun.
The pattern of the moon within a month.
What is an astronomical unit?
150 million kilometers, which is the distance between the sun and the Earth.
These objects that orbit around the sun, including stars and a variety of other objects are part of this interactive system.
What is a solar system?
Blue Supergiant, Red Dwarf, Red Giant, White Dwarf, Black Dwarf, and Yellow Dwarf are all different types of stars. Our sun is an example of this type of star.
What is a yellow dwarf?
These are one way to tell time because they are so predictable.
What are shadows?
This is the force that pulls two object towards each other.
What is gravity?
How far a light can travel in a year.
What is the farther the planet, the longer it takes to revolve around the sun?
After a star turns into a red giant it eventually collapses on itself and turns into other types of stars as it is dying. This star is a star that is out of fuel, but still shines brightly.
What is a white star?
This is the cause of the seasons.
What is the direction of the tilt of the Earth as it rotates around the sun.
Gravity is like this, which holds everything together in a grand celestial dance.
What is cosmic glue.
What is Air Resistance?
When visiting the planetarium, we learned about these celestial groups that form recognizable shapes or patterns.
What are constellations?
These are the reasons stars seem to change their positions in the night sky.
What are the Earth's rotation, the tilt of the Earth's axis, and the movement of the stars?
These two movements determine our calendar.
What are the Earth rotating around the sun and the Moon rotating around the Earth.
The phase of the moon that happens right before the new moon begins again.
What is the waning crescent moon?
What is force?
The push or pull required to move something.