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  • The first planet discovered with the use of a telescope. It has the third-largest planetary radius and fourth-largest planetary mass in the Solar System
    Uranus
  • A vehicle used for travelling in space
    Spacecraft
  • The hottest planet is
    Venus
  • This planet is named after the Roman god of the sea
    Neptune
  • The galaxy that contains our Solar System
    The Milky Way
  • The leading explanation about how the universe began
    The Big Bang theory
  • This planet has the most beautiful rings
    Saturn
  • A person who is trained to travel in a spacecraft, a spaceman
    Astronaut
  • A .... ...... happens when the moon gets in the way of the sun’s light and casts its shadow on Earth. That means during the day, the moon moves over the sun and it gets dark
    Solar eclipse
  • An intense shaking of Earth’s surface is called....
    Earthquake
  • ......is a type of electromagnetic radiation that makes black-light posters glow, and is responsible for summer tans — and sunburns
    UV - Ultraviolet light
  • An artificial body placed in orbit round the earth or moon or another planet in order to collect information or for communication
    Satellite
  • The first man to land on the moon
    Neil Armstrong
  • It is the force by which a planet or other body draws objects toward its center. Its force keeps all of the planets in orbit around the sun.
    Gravity
  • The biggest planet in our solar system
    Jupiter
  • Beautiful light shows in the sky near the North or South Pole
    Auroras
  • What is the sun made of?
    hydrogen and helium
  • It is dark, cold, and very windy. It's the last of the planets in our solar system
    Neptune
  • Small, rocky objects that orbit the sun like planets but they are much smaller than planets.
    Asteroids
  • The natural satellite of the earth, visible (mainly at night) by reflected light from the sun
    Moon
  • The volume of this planet could hold more than 1,300 Earths. What planet is it?
    Jupiter
  • A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a ‘tail’ of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun
    Comet
  • A mysterious object seen in the sky for which it is claimed no scientific explanation can be found
    UFO
  • Saturn is further from the Sun than Jupiter: True or False
    True