This document provides an overview of astronomy topics required to earn a Cub Scouts Belt Loop in astronomy. It introduces the night sky, telescopes and binoculars, planets in our solar system including Venus and Mars, comets, galaxies including the Milky Way and examples of colliding galaxies, stars such as red giants and white dwarfs, black holes, meteors, and star maps. The document uses images and minimal text to highlight key astronomical objects and concepts.

1. Astronomy Cub Scouts Belt Loop December 1, 2009

2. The typical sky at night: What’s up there?

3. Telescopes and Binoculars

4. Planets near us: Our Solar System

5. The Biggest Asteroid with a moon!

6. Venus: Our hot neighbor Asteroid with a moon!

7. Mars: Where the robots are Asteroid with a moon!

8. Our solar system with a Comet

9. Galaxy: A group of Solar systems

10. Two Galaxies Colliding!

11. A big, bright galaxy meets A pretty, spiral galaxy

12. Milky Way: our Galaxy!

13. Galaxy with Red Stars

14. A Red Giant Star with a White Dwarf Star

15. Dwarfs are small stars

16. White Dwarf loses it’s shell

17. Comets Ice or Rock

18. Comet Hale-Bopp over mountains

19. A Meteor in a meteor shower

20. Asteroid with a moon!

21. Black Holes would rip a star apart? Asteroid with a moon!

22. Star Maps