Cosmology
The theory that explains the origin of the universe.
What is the Big Bang Theory?
The dense remnant of a low-mass star after it sheds its outer layers.
What is a white dwarf?
A sudden eruption of energy and radiation from the Sun’s surface.
What is a solar flare?
A massive explosion marking the death of a star.
What is a supernova?
1 or 2?
What is 1?
The mysterious force causing the accelerated expansion of the universe.
What is dark energy?
The galaxy on a collision course with the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The darker, cooler regions on the Sun’s surface.
What are sunspots?
A device used to magnify distant objects in space.
What is a telescope?
The habitable zone around a star where liquid water could exist on a planet’s surface
What is the Goldilocks zone?
The hypothetical moment when the universe’s expansion becomes infinite and tears apart all structures.
What is the Big Rip?
The point in a black hole where density becomes infinite and physical laws break down.
What is a singularity?
The approximate time it takes light to travel from the Sun to Earth.
What is about 8 minutes and 20 seconds?
The geometric shape of a planet’s path around the Sun.
What is an ellipse?
A planet larger than Earth but smaller than Neptune, often rocky and potentially habitable.
What is a super-Earth?
The current age of the universe.
What is about 13.8 billion years?
The term for the critical conditions under which an object collapses into a black hole.
What is the Schwarzschild radius?
The continuous flow of charged particles streaming from the Sun into space.
What is the solar wind?
how fast does darkness travel?
What is the speed of light?
Earth is part of this type of planet group in our solar system.
What are terrestrial planets?
A theoretical oscillation between expansion and collapse of the universe.
What is the Big Bounce?
The term for the process that stretches an object as it falls toward a black hole.
What is spaghettification?
The color of the hottest stars in the universe.
What is blue?
A rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of electromagnetic radiation at regular intervals
What is a pulsar?
You start with 110 marbles. You give 10% of the marbles away. Then, 12 marbles are added from a donation. 8 marbles are lost under the couch. You trade one-fourth of the remaining marbles. 3 marbles are found in a drawer. You give 7 marbles away Then 6 more marbles.(round up)
What is 76 marbles?