What galaxy is the Earth found in?
The Milky way
How many planets are there in our Solar System?
There are 8 planets
What are the rocky objects called that travel from space and hit the earth?
Meteors
Name all 8 planets in our solar system.
Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.
What is it called when the moon blocks our view of the sun?
A (solar) eclipse.
In what year did the first moon landing take place?
(20th of July) 1969
The Earth orbits the sun.
True
False
What is a person who goes into space called?
Astronaut
What is this (currently orbiting the earth)?
Satellite
First invented in China, the development of the liquid-oxygen form of these allowed humans to go into space.
Rocket
What is this called?
Telescope
What is "intergalactic"?
between galaxies, in outer space
a unit of length in astronomy equal to the distance that light travels in one year or 9.46 trillion kilometers
Light year
What is an alien?
Strange or very different from what you are used to, or from another planet
What is a UFO?
Unidentified Flying Object
What's this?
Spaceship
