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Astronomy

Astronomy

Question: What is the earth,planets, sun, stars and everything in space called?
Answer: universe

Question: What is the study of the universe called?
Answer: astronomy

Question: What is the sun and all the other planets that travel around the sun called?
Answer: solar system

Question: Which early astronomer discovered the moons of Jupiter through telescopes that he built himself?
Answer: Galileo

Question: Which early astronomer first believed that the earth revolved around the sun?
Answer: Copernicus

The Sun and Moon

Question: What is the name of the dark spots that appear on the sun, which are cooler than the rest of the sun?
Answer: sunspots

Question: What are the names of the large bursts of fire that dart out from the sun?
Answer: solar flares

Question: What is a solar eclipse?
Answer: when the moon passes between the earth and the sun

Question: What is a lunar eclipse?
Answer: when the earth is between the moon and the sun

Question: Why do we have ocean tides?
Answer: because the moon's gravity pulls on the ocean, causing it to bulge

The Planets

Question: When does it get cold on Mercury and why?
Answer: At night because Mercury has no atmosphere to hold to hold in the heat

Question: What is the atmosphere like on Venus?
Answer: Thick acidic clouds

Question: What is the Great Red Spot on Jupiter
Answer: a storm

Question: What are Saturn's rings made of?
Answer: dust ice and rocks

Question: What gas gives Uranus and Neptune their blue/blue-green appearance?
Answer: methane

Space Rocks

Question: What is a comet?
Answer: a large ball of ice, dirt and rock that orbits the sun

Question: What is an asteroid?
Answer: a very large space rock

Question: What is a meteorite?
Answer: a space rock that has hit the earth

Question: Where is the asteroid belt?
Answer: between Mars and Jupiter

Question: Which planet protects the earth by pulling large comets into itself?
Answer: Jupiter

Stars and Galaxies

Question: What is a constellation?
Answer: a group of stars that seem to form the shape of a person or object

Question: What is our galaxy called?
Answer: the Milky Way

Question: What is Polaris?
Answer: the North Star

Question: What are supernovas?
Answer: exploding stars

Question: Name the four kinds of galaxies?
Answer: spiral, lenticular,elliptical,irregular