Planets
The name of the path that a planet makes around the Sun
What is an orbit?
The least harmful type of radiation
What are radiowaves?
The name of the era when space began to be explored
What is The Space Age?
An instrument that collects visible light with a mirror or lens to observe space
What is an optical telescope?
A dwarf planet that was once considered the ninth planet in our solar system
What is Pluto?
What UV stands for
What is ultraviolet radiation?
The year and the name of the competition with USSR to beat them to space
What is 1957 and The Space Race?
A device that orbits an object in space and gathers data
What is an orbiter?
The hottest planet
What is Venus?
The most harmful type of radiation
What are gamma rays?
The name of the NASA space craft that brought the first man to the moon
What is Apollo 11?
Two uses for artifical satellites.
What are cell phone communication, navigation (GPS), weather forecasting, broadcasting, changes in the environment observation, wild fire location, and search and rescue?
The four terrestrial planets
What is Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars?
The full range of electromagnetic radiation organized by frequency and wavelength
What is electromagnetic spectrum?
The year and the name of the astronaut who first walked on the surface of the moon
What are 1969 and Neil Armstrong?
The space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The four gas giant planets
What are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune?
The hottest color and the coldest color in the electromagnetic spectrum
What is blue and red?
What the initials NASA stands for
What is National Aeronautics and Space Administration?
The newest space telescope launched into space
What is the James Webb Telescope?