The Solar System
Stars
Constellations
Cool Facts
Miscellaneous
100
This object is sometimes called the Evening Star and sometimes called the Morning Star.
What is Venus?
100
This is the closest star to Earth.
What is the Sun?
100
This is another name for the constellation Ursa Major.
What is the Great Bear?
100
This is the number of tails a comet generally has.
What is two?
100
A light-year is a measure of this.
What is distance?
200
This planet has the coldest atmosphere in the solar system.
What is Uranus?
200
This is the brightest star in the sky.
What is Sirius?
200
This constellation is "chased" around the sky by the constellation Scorpius.
What is Orion?
200
Saturn would float if you put it in this liquid.
What is water?
200
The color of a star indicates this.
What is temperature?
300
This is the comet cloud at the edge of the solar system.
What is the Oort Cloud?
300
This is the number of seconds it takes a pulsar to complete one rotation, on average.
What is one?
300
This constellation contains the Andromeda Galaxy.
What is Andromeda?
300
This would be the same size of the Milky Way if our entire solar system could fit into a coffee cup. (New York State, USA, North America, The Earth)
What is North America?
300
This is the closest known black hole to Earth.
What is Cygnus X-1?
400
This planet's year is shorter than its day.
What is Jupiter?
400
Betelgeuse is this many times larger than the Sun.
What is 1000?
400
This is the number of constellations officially reciognized by the International Astronomical Union.
What is 88?
400
This is the process of falling into a black hole.
What is spaghettification?
400
This is what cosmic rays are made of.
What are particles?
500
This is the name of the most prominent crater on the moon.
What is Tycho?
500
This is the largest known star.
What is VY Canis Majoris?
500
This is the object in the constellation Orion that is not a star.
What is the Orion Nebula?
500
This is the number of times the Earth has orbited the Milky Way since its formation.
What is 18?
500
This is the imaginary boundary around a black hole from which nothing can escape once it goes inside.
What is an Event Horizon?