{
 "source": "https://peabody.kids/flashcards/fun-space-facts",
 "id": "fun-space-facts",
 "title": "Space Fun Facts",
 "category": "trivia-fun",
 "subject": "Space",
 "levels": [
  "k-2",
  "3-5",
  "6-8"
 ],
 "description": "Fun, true facts about the planets, stars, and space travel.",
 "tags": [
  "space",
  "planets",
  "astronomy"
 ],
 "frontLabel": "Question",
 "backLabel": "Answer",
 "cards": [
  [
   "What is the closest star to Earth?",
   "The Sun"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet is closest to the Sun?",
   "Mercury"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet is the hottest?",
   "Venus"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet is called the Red Planet?",
   "Mars"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet is the largest?",
   "Jupiter"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet has the most famous rings?",
   "Saturn"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet spins on its side?",
   "Uranus"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?",
   "Neptune"
  ],
  [
   "How many planets are in our solar system?",
   "Eight"
  ],
  [
   "What is the order of the planets?",
   "Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Moon?",
   "Earth's natural satellite"
  ],
  [
   "How long does the Moon take to go around Earth?",
   "About 27 days"
  ],
  [
   "Who was the first person on the Moon?",
   "Neil Armstrong, in 1969"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Milky Way?",
   "Our home galaxy"
  ],
  [
   "What is a galaxy?",
   "A huge group of stars, gas and dust"
  ],
  [
   "What is a light-year?",
   "The distance light travels in one year"
  ],
  [
   "What is a comet?",
   "An icy body that grows a glowing tail near the Sun"
  ],
  [
   "What is an asteroid?",
   "A rocky object that orbits the Sun"
  ],
  [
   "What is a meteor?",
   "A streak of light when space rock burns in the air"
  ],
  [
   "What is a meteorite?",
   "A space rock that lands on Earth"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Great Red Spot?",
   "A giant storm on Jupiter"
  ],
  [
   "What is a black hole?",
   "A place where gravity is so strong that light cannot escape"
  ],
  [
   "What is a supernova?",
   "The huge explosion of a dying star"
  ],
  [
   "What is a constellation?",
   "A pattern of stars, like the Big Dipper"
  ],
  [
   "What is the North Star?",
   "Polaris, which stays nearly in the same place in the northern sky"
  ],
  [
   "What is an eclipse of the Sun?",
   "When the Moon blocks the Sun's light from Earth"
  ],
  [
   "What is a lunar eclipse?",
   "When Earth's shadow falls on the Moon"
  ],
  [
   "What causes day and night?",
   "Earth spinning on its axis"
  ],
  [
   "What causes seasons?",
   "Earth's tilt as it goes around the Sun"
  ],
  [
   "How long is a year on Earth?",
   "About 365 days"
  ],
  [
   "What was the first animal to orbit Earth?",
   "A dog named Laika, in 1957"
  ],
  [
   "What was the first artificial satellite?",
   "Sputnik 1, launched in 1957"
  ],
  [
   "What is the ISS?",
   "The International Space Station, where astronauts live and work"
  ],
  [
   "Who was the first person in space?",
   "Yuri Gagarin, in 1961"
  ],
  [
   "What is NASA?",
   "The United States space agency"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Hubble Space Telescope?",
   "A telescope that orbits Earth and takes sharp pictures of space"
  ],
  [
   "What is the James Webb Space Telescope?",
   "An infrared space telescope launched in 2021"
  ],
  [
   "What are Mars rovers?",
   "Robot vehicles that explore Mars"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet has a day longer than its year?",
   "Venus"
  ],
  [
   "Which planet has the most moons known?",
   "Saturn has the most confirmed moons"
  ],
  [
   "What are Jupiter's four big moons called?",
   "Io, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto"
  ],
  [
   "Which is the largest moon in the solar system?",
   "Ganymede, a moon of Jupiter"
  ],
  [
   "What is Pluto now called?",
   "A dwarf planet"
  ],
  [
   "What is the asteroid belt?",
   "A ring of rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter"
  ],
  [
   "What makes the Sun shine?",
   "Nuclear fusion in its core"
  ],
  [
   "What color are the hottest stars?",
   "Blue-white"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Sun made of?",
   "Mostly hydrogen and helium gas"
  ],
  [
   "How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?",
   "About 8 minutes"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Big Bang?",
   "The idea that the universe began about 13.8 billion years ago from a hot, dense start"
  ],
  [
   "What is gravity?",
   "The pull between objects with mass"
  ],
  [
   "Why do astronauts float?",
   "They are in free fall around the Earth"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Apollo program?",
   "NASA's program that landed people on the Moon (1969-1972)"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Space Shuttle?",
   "A reusable NASA spacecraft that flew from 1981 to 2011"
  ],
  [
   "What is a rocket's fuel for?",
   "To push it up fast enough to escape Earth's gravity"
  ],
  [
   "What is Halley's Comet?",
   "A famous comet seen from Earth about every 76 years"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Big Dipper?",
   "Seven bright stars shaped like a ladle"
  ],
  [
   "What are Orion's belt stars?",
   "Three bright stars in a row in the constellation Orion"
  ],
  [
   "What is the Aurora?",
   "Colored lights in the sky near the poles, caused by particles from the Sun"
  ],
  [
   "What is the solar system?",
   "The Sun and everything that orbits it"
  ],
  [
   "What is a satellite?",
   "An object that orbits a larger one"
  ],
  [
   "What is an astronaut?",
   "A person trained to travel in space"
  ]
 ]
}