SpaceCrafts
The farthest man-made object from earth?
What is Voyager 1?
All of the Planets in the solar system.
What are Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune?
Earth's diameter at the equator
A. 7,926 miles B. 8,342 miles
C. 9,681 miles D. 10,155 miles
A. 7,926 miles
The brightest object in the night sky besides the moon
What is Venus?
The closest large galaxy to ours that will collide with us in 4 to 5 billion years
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The only space craft ever to visit the Outer Planets: Uranus and Neptune
What is Voyager 2?
The year was Pluto demoted from a Planet to a dwarf planet.
What was 2006?
How 1 AU (Astronomical unit) is defined.
What is the average distance between the earth and the sun (roughly 90 million miles)?
The name of the North Star.
What is Polaris?
The name of a large collection of gas where stars are born.
What is a Nebula?
The first and only space craft to visit Pluto in 2015.
What is The New Horizons Spacecraft?
Our moon ranks here on a scale of the diameters of the 891 moons in our solar system.
A. 2nd B. 5th C. 6th. D. 8th
B. 5th
The average distance of the moon from earth.
What is 238,900 mi?
The constellation of the the Brightest star in the night sky, Sirius. (Hint: Sirius is nicknamed the Dog Star).
What is Canis Major (The Greater Dog)?
The name of my new telescope.
What is the SeeStar S50?
The year that the first Satellite, Sputnik 1, launched
What is 1957?
The number of confirmed objects have entered the solar system for interstellar space
What is 3?
He was the first person to accurately measure the circumference of the earth.
Who was Eratosthenes (c. 240 B.C.E.)?
How many Galaxies are visible through the Naked eye from Earth?
A. 0 B. 2 C. 4 D. 6
C. 4 (Andromeda, Triangulum, Large and Small Magellanic Clouds)
Isaac Newton said that gravity was an attractive force, however this scientist contradicted that. Saying that it wasn't a force, but is the bending of the fabric of space and time.
Who was Albert Einstein?
At Over 13 billion miles from earth, it takes this long for radio signals traveling at light speed (299,792,458 m/s) to reach us
A. 9 hours B. 42 minutes C. 10 hours D. 13 hours
D. 13 hours
In the 17th century the heliocentric model was popularized by this scientist.
Who was Mikolaj Kopernik (a.k.a. Nicolaus Copernicus)?
This famous photo of Earth is know as the blue marble, it was taken by this Apollo Mission
What was Apollo 17 (1972)?
The name of the line of constellations that the sun travels through throughout the year. It contains the1!2 constellations of the zodiac and 1 other.
What is The Ecliptic?
The name the densest thing in the universe, second only to black holes.
(36,300,000,000,000,000 lbs/ft^3)
What is a Neutron Star?