Stellar Flicks
This movie features Matthew McConaughey travelling through a wormhole.
Interstellar
The brightest star in the Night Sky
Sirius (the Dog Star)
A common type of telescope that uses concave mirrors to gather light.
Reflecting Telescope or Newtonian
Field of study that deals with the possibility and likely nature of life on other planets.
Astrobiology
A 17th-century astronomer known for his laws of planetary motion.
Johannes Kepler
This classic series explores space, “the final frontier"
Star Trek
This term refers to a set of 110 famous astronomical objects.
Messier Objects
An accessory used in telescopes to double or triple the magnification of a telescope’s eyepiece.
Barlow Lens
An area around a star where liquid water could exist on orbiting planets.
Goldilocks or Habitable Zone
A physicist known for his work on Black Holes, and wrote “A Brief History of Time”
Stephen Hawking
This 1000-foot radio telescope was featured in the 1997 movie Contact.
The Arecibo Observatory
This meteor shower, visible in August, is associated with the comet Swift-Tuttle.
The Perseids
A NASA space telescope, launched in 2009, that discovered thousands of exoplanets.
Kepler
A collective term that is used for scientific search for intelligent life
SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence)
The Soviet Cosmonaut who was the first human to journey into outer space.
Yuri Gagarin
Which actor is featured in the 1995 Apollo 13 movie as Astronaut Jim Lovell?
Tom Hanks
There is this many constellations recognized by the International Astronomical Union.
88 constellations
An instrument that allows the study of chemical compositions of celestial objects.
Spectrograph
A paradox that questions why we haven’t found alien life despite high probability estimates
Fermi Paradox
An ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer best known for his geocentric model of the universe.
Ptolemy
Which NASA probe does Mark Watney hack in The Martian?
Mars Pathfinder
Stars that do not fall below horizon in the sky.
Circumpolar
An upcoming infrared space telescope that will investigate dark energy.
The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
A hypothetical belt of satellites around a star, intended to capture its energy.
A Dyson Sphere
The first neurologist and Canadian woman to travel into space.
Roberta Bondar