This astronomer observed Jupiter's moons and mistakenly categorized them as "Medician Stars."
Who is Galileo Galilei? To be fair, they called almost anything a star back then...
100
An object of this class was observed to be so cold, that its carbon had crystallized to form an Earth sized diamond!
What is a white dwarf.
100
This planet orbits a binary star system.
What is Tatooine?
200
Most stars turn into this small, dense object at their death.
What is a white dwarf?
200
The outermost layer of the sun, aka the solar atmosphere.
What is the corona?
200
This astronomer was famously burned at the stake for claiming (amongst other things) that the Sun is a star.
Who is Giodarno Bruno?
200
The evolutionary stage at which can stars spin their fastest.
What are black holes? Supermassive black holes can spin up to 87% the maximum speed permitted by relativity.
200
This planet-sized weapon eats up stars and converts the energy into a massive death-ray in the latest star wars movie, employing the logic of E = mc^2.
What is Star Killer Base?
300
This effect causes stars to appear to twinkle.
What is atmospheric turbulence?
300
This percentage of the matter in our solar system is within the sun itself!
What is 99.86 %
300
This astronomer created the modern stellar spectral classification system, though she is not the person who created it's mnemonic "Oh be a fine girl, kiss me!"
Who is Annie Jump Cannon?
Henry Russell coined the mnemonic, for those interested.
300
Though they appear starlike in a telescope, these objects are actually extremely distant, supermassive blackholes that are releasing huge amounts of energy.
What is a quasar?
300
"You've never heard of the Millennium Falcon?…It's the ship that made the Kessel Run in less than twelve _________." Han Solo says, using this unit of distance instead of time.
What is a parsec?
400
The number of stars in our Milky Way.
What is 100 billion?
400
This many Earths would fill the volume of the sun.
What is 960,000?
400
This astronomer determined that the sun was mostly made of Hydrogen and Helium, though credit was given to a different astronomer who published a similar paper 4 years after calling her theory "spurious."
Who is Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin. The astronomer who was given credit 4 years later: Henry Russell. The man is serious trouble.
400
A star that consists of a red giant with a neutron star at its core.
What is a Thorne–Żytkow object (TZO)?
400
This engine that fuels a TIE fighters motion is used by NASA for real life satellites!
What is an ion thruster?
500
The largest star in our galaxy has a volume 5 billion times that of our sun.
What is UY Scuti? (WOH G64 and RW Cephei)?
500
This is the name of the first probe sent by NASA to study the sun.
What is Pioneer 5?
500
This astrophysicist created an equation that links the composition and appearance of the spectrum with the temperature of the star and can thus be used to determine either the temperature of the star or the relative abundance of the chemical elements investigated.
Who is Meghnad Saha?
500
The approximate radius of the smallest star measured?
What is 0.12 solar radii, ~83,000 km, ~52,000 miles?
500
The sound a TIE fighter makes is a combination of a car skidding on wet pavement and this noise.