Astronomy - Found it or Made it Activity

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

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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