3. What is the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter.
4. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Mercury.
5. Which planet is known for its rings?
Answer: Saturn.
6. What is the name of the galaxy we live in?
Answer: The Milky Way.
7. What is a light year?
Answer: The distance that light travels in one year, approximately 5.88 trillion miles.
8. What is the name of the first man who walked on the moon? Answer: Neil Armstrong. 9. What is the name of the spacecraft that carried the first humans to the moon? Answer: Apollo 11.
10. What is a lunar eclipse?
Answer: An event that occurs when the Earth passes between the Sun and the Moon, casting a shadow on the Moon.
11. What is a solar eclipse?
Answer: An event that occurs when the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, blocking the Sun's light.
12. What is the name of the first planet discovered by a telescope?
Answer: Uranus.
13. What is a dwarf planet?
Answer: A celestial body that orbits the Sun and has sufficient mass to be rounded by its own gravity but has not cleared its orbit of other debris.
14. What is the name of the space telescope launched by NASA in
1990? Answer: Hubble Space Telescope.
15. What is the name of the agency that sent the first human into space? Answer: The Soviet Union (USSR). The first human in space was Yuri Gagarin, who orbited the Earth aboard Vostok 1 in 1961.
