Learning About the Universe

This telescope is the first space observatory located in space.

• Hubble

• Voyager

• Space Shuttle

• Spirit and Opportunity

Cassini-Huygens was launched to study this planet

• Jupiter

• Saturn

• Neptune

• Uranus

Which space craft was specifically designed to search for planets outside the solar system?

• Kepler

• Spitzer

• Voyager 1 and 2

• Skylab

Who was the first person to travel to space and orbit Earth?

• Yuri Gagarin

• Laika

• Buzz Aldrin

• Neil Armstrong

a spacecraft that carries scientific instruments to collect and transmit data, but has no human crew is called

• satellite

• non optical telescope

• space shuttle

• space probe

The International Space Station is

• a refracting telescope

• an artificial satellite

• a space shuttle

• a space based laboratory and observatory

This is what researchers call the reverse big bang, when everything will be crushed into a black hole

• globular clusters

• hubble's law

• reverse big bang

• big crunch

Light Years are a measure of

• brightness

• time

• mass

• distance

These are the farthest known object from Earth in the Universe

• nebulae

• light years

• quasars

• dark energy

This is a large group of older stars

• globular cluster

• star system

• star clusters

• light years