Name the planet or moon

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Activities

Games to play here

• Put the planets in size order
• Put the planets in order from the Sun
• What is on the Moon?
• Which one does not belong?
• Eyes, binoculars, or telescope?
• Could you stand on a planet or moon?
• Jump the solar system
• Something is broken
• Name the planet or moon

Sheets to print

• Look at the Sun safely, and find out how far it is
• What the Moon shows, and why it changes shape
• While you wait for the telescope
• How far apart the planets really are
• Build a paper rocket and launch it with one puff
• Every planet through a small telescope
• Star clusters — what you see
• Planetary nebulae — what you see
• Nebulae — what you see
• Variable stars — what you see
• Faint smudges that are whole galaxies
• My observation — a blank sheet
• Colour in the planets
• Colour in the deep sky
• Colour in the Moon
• Colour in Spark the fox
• Colour in Perl the owl
• Colour in the ship on the Moon
• Colour in the Orion Nebula
• Colour in the Andromeda Galaxy
• Colour in Spark and Perl over Jupiter
• Colour in the ship at Saturn

Things to try

• Feel the planet Earth
• Measure the sky with your fist
• Pace out the solar system
• Start with your eyes
• Stickers you can print at home

Go Looking

• Algol
• The Andromeda Galaxy (M31)
• The Beehive Cluster
• Black holes
• Bode’s Galaxy (M81)
• Callisto
• Cassini
• Centaurus A (NGC 5128)
• The chessboard and the whole universe
• Deimos
• The Dumbbell Nebula
• The Eagle Nebula
• Earth
• Enceladus
• Europa
• The galactic bar and bulge
• Ganymede
• The Helix Nebula
• The Hercules Cluster (M13)
• The Hubble Space Telescope
• The International Space Station
• Io
• The James Webb Space Telescope
• Jupiter
• The Lagoon Nebula
• The Large Magellanic Cloud
• The longest day
• A lunar eclipse
• Mars
• Mercury
• A meteor shower
• The Milky Way
• Mira
• The Moon
• Neptune
• The northern lights
• The Orion Nebula
• Parker Solar Probe
• Phobos
• The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101)
• The Pleiades
• Polaris
• The Ring Nebula
• RR Lyrae
• Sagittarius A*
• Saturn
• A solar eclipse
• The Sombrero Galaxy (M104)
• SS Cygni
• A star’s life
• The Sun
• Titan
• The Triangulum Galaxy (M33)
• Triton
• Uranus
• Venus
• Voyager 1
• Voyager 2
• The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51)
• Why did animals go to space?
• Why do we go to space?

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