found it or
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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? Earth www.basherbooks.com
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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
12 Hubble 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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A Basher Astronomy Match-Up
found it or Made it ?
Can you sort the natural objects from the manmade? Number each word with the correct clue.
Good luck!
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Objects
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
white dwarf WMAP
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