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Space Fun Facts
Fun, true facts about the planets, stars, and space travel.
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- What is the closest star to Earth?QuestionThe Sun
- Which planet is closest to the Sun?QuestionMercury
- Which planet is the hottest?QuestionVenus
- Which planet is called the Red Planet?QuestionMars
- Which planet is the largest?QuestionJupiter
- Which planet has the most famous rings?QuestionSaturn
- Which planet spins on its side?QuestionUranus
- Which planet is the farthest from the Sun?QuestionNeptune
- How many planets are in our solar system?QuestionEight
- What is the order of the planets?QuestionMercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
- What is the Moon?QuestionEarth's natural satellite
- How long does the Moon take to go around Earth?QuestionAbout 27 days
- Who was the first person on the Moon?QuestionNeil Armstrong, in 1969
- What is the Milky Way?QuestionOur home galaxy
- What is a galaxy?QuestionA huge group of stars, gas and dust
- What is a light-year?QuestionThe distance light travels in one year
- What is a comet?QuestionAn icy body that grows a glowing tail near the Sun
- What is an asteroid?QuestionA rocky object that orbits the Sun
- What is a meteor?QuestionA streak of light when space rock burns in the air
- What is a meteorite?QuestionA space rock that lands on Earth
- What is the Great Red Spot?QuestionA giant storm on Jupiter
- What is a black hole?QuestionA place where gravity is so strong that light cannot escape
- What is a supernova?QuestionThe huge explosion of a dying star
- What is a constellation?QuestionA pattern of stars, like the Big Dipper
- What is the North Star?QuestionPolaris, which stays nearly in the same place in the northern sky
- What is an eclipse of the Sun?QuestionWhen the Moon blocks the Sun's light from Earth
- What is a lunar eclipse?QuestionWhen Earth's shadow falls on the Moon
- What causes day and night?QuestionEarth spinning on its axis
- What causes seasons?QuestionEarth's tilt as it goes around the Sun
- How long is a year on Earth?QuestionAbout 365 days
- What was the first animal to orbit Earth?QuestionA dog named Laika, in 1957
- What was the first artificial satellite?QuestionSputnik 1, launched in 1957
- What is the ISS?QuestionThe International Space Station, where astronauts live and work
- Who was the first person in space?QuestionYuri Gagarin, in 1961
- What is NASA?QuestionThe United States space agency
- What is the Hubble Space Telescope?QuestionA telescope that orbits Earth and takes sharp pictures of space
- What is the James Webb Space Telescope?QuestionAn infrared space telescope launched in 2021
- What are Mars rovers?QuestionRobot vehicles that explore Mars
- Which planet has a day longer than its year?QuestionVenus
- Which planet has the most moons known?QuestionSaturn has the most confirmed moons
- What are Jupiter's four big moons called?QuestionIo, Europa, Ganymede and Callisto
- Which is the largest moon in the solar system?QuestionGanymede, a moon of Jupiter
- What is Pluto now called?QuestionA dwarf planet
- What is the asteroid belt?QuestionA ring of rocky objects between Mars and Jupiter
- What makes the Sun shine?QuestionNuclear fusion in its core
- What color are the hottest stars?QuestionBlue-white
- What is the Sun made of?QuestionMostly hydrogen and helium gas
- How long does sunlight take to reach Earth?QuestionAbout 8 minutes
- What is the Big Bang?QuestionThe idea that the universe began about 13.8 billion years ago from a hot, dense start
- What is gravity?QuestionThe pull between objects with mass
- Why do astronauts float?QuestionThey are in free fall around the Earth
- What is the Apollo program?QuestionNASA's program that landed people on the Moon (1969-1972)
- What is the Space Shuttle?QuestionA reusable NASA spacecraft that flew from 1981 to 2011
- What is a rocket's fuel for?QuestionTo push it up fast enough to escape Earth's gravity
- What is Halley's Comet?QuestionA famous comet seen from Earth about every 76 years
- What is the Big Dipper?QuestionSeven bright stars shaped like a ladle
- What are Orion's belt stars?QuestionThree bright stars in a row in the constellation Orion
- What is the Aurora?QuestionColored lights in the sky near the poles, caused by particles from the Sun
- What is the solar system?QuestionThe Sun and everything that orbits it
- What is a satellite?QuestionAn object that orbits a larger one
- What is an astronaut?QuestionA person trained to travel in space
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