Planets and Stars

A tool that makes distant objects appear larger, brighter, and sharper.

• Magnify

• Telescope
• Moon

• Space Probe

To make an object appear larger

• Magnify

• Outer Planets

• Orbit

• Solar System

Mercury, Venus, Earth, and Mars are small and rocky.

• Moon

• Outer Planets

• Inner Planets

• Orbit

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are large and made mostly of gas.

• Outer Planets

• Inner Planets

• Telescope

• Solar System

To move in a path around an object.

• Space Probe

• Solar System

• Orbit

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-PS2-4

The sun and planets, their moons, and other objects that orbit the sun.

• Inner Planets

• Outer Planets

• Solar System

• Moon

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

A craft that travels into space with instruments like lab equipment and cameras to collect data.

• Inner Planets

• Magnify

• Orbit

• Space Probe

A natural object that moves in an orbit around a planet.

• Telescope

• Moon

• Outer Planets

• Inner Planets

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-2

The planet closest to the sun.

• Pluto

• Mercury

• Earth

• Saturn

This planet has the hottest surface.

• Neptune

• Jupiter

• Mars

• Venus