Solar System

The spinning motion of a body on its axis

• Sunspot

• Satellite

• Rotation

• Asteroid

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

The average distance between the Earth and the sun

• Astronomical Unit

• Asteroid

• Planet

• Sunspot

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Large gaseous planets of the outer solar system

• Satellite

• Sunspots

• Terrestrial Planets

• Gas Giants

Small, dense, rocky planets of the inner solar system

• Asteroid

• Satellit

• Terrestrial Planets

• Gas Giant

Huge clouds of dust and gas found in space

• Nebula

• Asteroid

• Satellite

• Planet

An area on the sun that is cooler and shows up darker

• Sunspot

• Planet

• Asteroid

• Satellite

Dense region of the sun that takes light millions of years to pass through

• Rotation

• Radiative Zone

• Sunspot

• Photosphere

Layer of the sun that gas is thick enough to see

• Radiative Zone

• Satellite

• Sunspot

• Photosphere

The tiny building blocks of a planet

• Planetesimal

• Planet

• Asteroid

• Satellite

Counterclockwise spin of a planet or moon

• Retrograde Rotation

• Prograde Rotation

• Planet

• Satellite