Question | Answer |
Energy that travels across distances as certain types of waves. | Electromagnetic Radiation |
A group of millions or billions of stars held together by their own gravity. | Galaxy |
A device that gathers electromagnetic radiation. | Telescope |
A group of stars that form a pattern in the sky. | Constellations |
The path that an object in space takes as it moves around another object due to gravity. | Orbit |
A spacecraft that drops into a planet's atmosphere and records data. | Probe |
An object that orbits a more massive object. | Satellite |
Space and all of the matter and energy in it. | Universe |
The distance between the peak of one wave and the peak of the next wave. | Wavelength |
The Sun, the planets, and smaller bodies make this up. | Solar System |
An artificial satellite in which people can live and work for long periods of time. | Space Station |
A range of colors. | Spectrum |
When an object strikes the surface of a larger object in space, it explodes and leaves behind a round pit called an? | Impact Crater |
A space craft the lands on the surface of a planet to take samples. | Lander |
How are stars in a constellation related? | They form a pattern in the sky. |
The movement of which is easiest to observe without a telescope is? | The moon |
When they are in orbit around Earth, astronauts must get use to? | weightlessness |
Which type of mission can provide information about more than one planet? | Flyby |