Astronomy

Question 0

Asteroid

Answer 0

A small rocky body that revolves around the sun.

Question 1

Meteorite

Answer 1

A meteor that passes through Earth’s atmosphere without burning up completely.

Question 2

The Big Bang Theory

Answer 2

The theory that states that the universe began with a tremendous explosion.

Question 3

The Milky Way

Answer 3

Our galaxy

Question 4

Sputnik

Answer 4

The first man made object in space. It started the space race.

Question 5

Reflecting Telescope

Answer 5

A telescope that uses curved mirrors to gather and focus light.

Question 6

Black Hole

Answer 6

An object with more than 3 solar masses squeezed into a ball only 10 kilometers across whose gravity is so strong that not even light can escape.

Question 7

Axis

Answer 7

A straight line about which a body rotates.

Question 8

Rotation

Answer 8

The spinning motion of a body on it’s axis. For the Earth, this is one day.

Question 9

Supernova

Answer 9

The death of a large star by explosion.

Question 10

Comet

Answer 10

A small body of ice, rock, and cosmic dust, loosely packed together, that gives off gas and dust in the form of a tail as it passes close to the sun.

Question 11

Constellation

Answer 11

A section of the sky that contains a recognizable star pattern.

Question 12

NASA

Answer 12

National Aeronautics and Space Administration

Question 13

Ellipse

Answer 13

A closed curve in which the sum of the distance from the edge of the curve to two points inside the ellipse is always the same.

Question 14

Solar Eclipse

Answer 14

An event in which the shadow of the moon falls on the Earth’s surface.

Question 15

What’s a lunar eclipse?

Answer 15

An event in which the shadow of the Earth falls on the moon.

Question 16

Who was the first person in space?

Answer 16

Yuri Gagarin

Question 17

Who was the first American in space?

Answer 17

Allen B Shepard

Question 18

Who was the first person to orbit the earth

Answer 18

John Glen

Question 19

Who was the first person on the moon? What did he say?

Answer 19

Neil Armstrong, and he said “this is one small step for man, one giant leap for man kind

Question 20

What was the name of Neil Armstrong’s space craft?

Answer 20

Apollo 11

Question 21

Who thought the earth was the center of the Milky way?

Answer 21

Ptolemy

Question 22

Who figured out the sun is in the middle of our galaxy?

Answer 22

Copernicus

Question 23

What person used a telescope to study celestial bodies?

Answer 23

Galileo