found
it or
Made
it ?
A N A s t r o no m y
A C t i v i t y!
Boy there sure are lots of objects
in space! Some of them got there
naturally, some of them were sent
up for exploration, and some of
them were left behind. Can you sort
the natural from the manmade?
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1 Halleys Comet
Famous for my blazing tail, I come around every 75 years
2 Red Dwarf I’m the most common star, but I’m too dim to see with the naked eye
3 Extra solar Planet The holy grail for astronomers looking for a place like home
4 Supergiant
Live fast, die young, and go out with a bang—that’s my motto
5 White Dwarf What’s left after a giant star has given it its all 6 Supernova
The biggest explosion in the universe
7 Neutron Star What’s left over after a supernova 8 Supernova Remnant A screaming banshee of energy travelling at 6.2 million miles per hour
9 Elliptical Galaxy A huge squished ball of old stars 10 Active Galaxy An unpredictable galaxy with a super-massive black hole at its center
11 Colliding Galaxies
It’s like a massive car accident that takes one billion years Sent there
12Hubble Space Telescope The only space object to ever wear corrective lenses
13 New Horizons I’m boldly going where none have gone before
14 Voyagers Twin explorers who have seen it all
15 Cassini-Huygens
We run rings around the object of our exploration
16 Space Junk What, you thought we picked up the trash?
17 International Space Station Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky
18 Mars Rovers Like the famous bunny, we keep going, and going 19 Seti Hello . . . is there anybody out there?
20 Wmap
I’m the one who dated the Big Bang
21 Galileo
This Jupiter probe was named after the father of Astronomy
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Made it ?
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Can you sort the natural objects
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each word with the correct clue.
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1 Famous for my blazing tail, I come around every 75 years
active galaxy
2 I’m the most common star, but I’m too dim to see with
the naked eye
Cassini-Huygens
3 The holy grail for astronomers looking for a place like home
colliding galaxies
4 Live fast, die young, and go out with a bang—that’s my motto
elliptical galaxy
5 What’s left after a giant star has given it its all
6 The biggest explosion in the universe
extrasolar planet
7 What’s left over after a supernova
Galileo
8 A screaming banshee of energy travelling at 6.2 million miles per hour
Halley’s comet
9 A huge squished ball of old stars
10 An unpredictable galaxy with a super-massive black hole at its center
1
1 It’s like a massive car accident that takes one billion years
Hubble space
telescope
International
Space Station
Sent there
Mars rovers
12 The only space object to ever wear corrective lenses
neutron star
1
3 I’m boldly going where none have gone before
New Horizons
14 Twin explorers who have seen it all
1
5 We run rings around the object of our exploration
1
6 What, you thought we picked up the trash?
17 Up above the world so high, like a diamond in the sky
18 Like the famous bunny, we keep going, and going
19 Hello . . . is there anybody out there?
red dwarf
SETI
space junk
supergiant
supernova
supernova remnant
20 I’m the one who dated the Big Bang
Voyagers
21 This Jupiter probe was named after the father of Astronomy
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