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A huge ball of superheated gases
What is a star?
Everything that exists in space
What is the Universe?
A ball of rock, ice and frozen gases that revolves around the sun
What is a comet?
A large body that revolves around DAILY DOUBLE A large body that revolves around a star
What is a planet?
A pattern of stars that form an imaginary picture or design in the sky
What is a constellation?
The planet that is closest to the sun
What is a mercury?
The planet with rings that can be easily seen.
What is Saturn?
The largest planet.
What is Jupiter?
The planet that is most like Earth.
What is Venus?
Sometimes called the Red Planet.
What is Mars?
The star at the center of our Solar System.
What is the Sun?
How our Sun described in terms of color, temperature, and size.
What is a yellow, medium hot, and medium sized star?
The star that stays still in the sky and is used to find direction.
What is the North Star or Polaris?
The hottest stars are this color.
What is blue?
The term that describes a star that is dying.
What is a Red Giant?
The first astronomer to use a telescope to view distant objects in space.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
DAILY DOUBLE The difference Between a red and a blue star.
A red star is cooler than What is temperature? A red star is cooler than A blue star.
The reason star patterns seem to move in the night sky.
What is the Earth’s movement around the sun?
The group of objects that orbit the sun between the inner and outer planets.
What is the Asteroid Belt?
The difference between the inner and the outer planets.
What is the inner planets are rocky and the outer planets are gaseous?
What is Leo?
What is Cygnus?
What is Saturn?
What is a Earth?
What is the Big Dipper?