Space Club 2

Space Club 2

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​Eagle Nebula

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Sun and Other Stars

Multiple Choice

True or False: The Sun is the closest star to Earth.

• True

• False

Luna: What is a star?

A star is an exploding ball of burning gas held together by gravity.

Avielle: Why does the star Sirius appear brighter even though it is much smaller than the star Rigel?

Multiple Choice

How far is the Sun from us?

• 240,000 miles

• 93,000,000 miles

• 930,000,000 miles

• 9,300,000 miles

Multiple Choice

What makes our sun special?

• It’s bigger than other stars

• It’s the right distance from Earth to support life

• It’s brighter than other stars

• It’s part of the Orion constellation

Multiple Select

What are two things that stars produce?

• Fog

• Light

• Heat

• Reflection

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Multiple Choice

How long would it take you to reach the sun if you traveled with the speed of light?

• 8 days

• 8 years

• 8 minutes

• 80 minutes

Open Ended

Boaz: What is one way that ancient people used the stars and constellations?

Multiple Choice

How many years does it take for light from the nearest nighttime star to reach us?

• 20 years

• 1 year

• 10 years

• 4 years

is the closest star to us after the Sun.

Proxima Centauri

Multiple Choice

If you could run with the speed of light, how many times would you run around the Earth in 10 seconds?

• 30 times

• 100 times

• 10,000 times

• 37.5 times

Multiple Choice

How many stars do you think you can see in the night sky?

• about a billion

• a little more than a million

• 1,000 to 2,000

• 5,000 to 9,000

Luna: Why won't you see nearly as many stars in the city as you would see in a country?

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Avielle: Why do stars appear to twinkle in the sky at night?

Multiple Choice

What is the special name that astronomers gave to a star's brightness?

• Luminosity

• Luminose

• Lumen

• Curiosity

Multiple Select

What are two things that determine how bright the star appears in the sky for you?

• Its age

• Its size

• Its distance

• Its chemicals

Boaz: If you were to take a long nail and hold it with a pair of plyers over a very hot flame, what do you think would happen to the nail?

Multiple Choice

Who was the scientist that discovered rings around Saturn?

• Hipparchus

• Galileo Galilei

• Erastothenes

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Multiple Choice

How many miles is the Sun across?

• 1,000,000 miles

• 1,000 miles

• 1 mile

• 100 miles

Multiple Choice

If the Sun would the size of a beach ball, how big would the Earth be compared to it?

• Dust speck

• Apple

• Cherry

• Green pea

Multiple Choice

How big is Hubble's telescope?

• As big as a dinner table

• The size of a school bus

• As large as a blue whale

• The size of a laptop

Hubble Site

Luna: Tell us what you learned about the colors of the stars.

Multiple Select

What are three metals that are in the Sun and other stars? (Sun, Our Nearest Star, p. 14)

• Iron

• Gold

• Aluminum

• Tin

Draw

Put a cross on North America, then circle Australia, and outline Asia.

Draw

Circle where Mauna Kea would be.

Avielle: Explain how is that that we power up our cars and trucks, airplanes, and rockets, with ancient solar energy.

How do you build a sundial?

Thank you, Luna, Boaz, and Avielle.

I hope you are enjoying your space journey.

​See you next Wednesday