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On August 15, 2013, engineers concluded that Kepler's reaction wheels could not be recovered and that planet searching using this method could not continue.
What is the transit method?
The year the first exoplanet was found.
What is 1992?
The closest star to our Sun.
What is Proxima Centauri?
The last NASA spaceflight mission that was manned.
What is Apollo 17?
The four galactic types.
This telescope was repaired by astronauts in 2002, ferried by the shuttle Columbia.
What is Hubble?
The method used to detect exoplanets that involves looking at star-light being blocked.
What is the transit method?
The most common type of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
What are red dwarf stars?
The longest continuous time a human has spent in space.
What is 437 days? (lenient to plus or minus 30 days)
The approximate amount of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy.
The second part of the search for exoplanets by a specific satellite, named this, started on May 16, 2014 and ended on October 30, 2018.
What is K2?
The first space telescope designed to search for exoplanets.
What is the Kepler Space Telescope?
The largest type of star in the universe.
What are red supergiant stars?
The number of minutes of the shortest spaceflight.
What is 15 minutes?
The name of a hat-shaped galaxy in the Virgo Constellation.
What is the Sombrero Galaxy?
This mission's brief stop at Vesta ended up taking longer than usual before being able to leave and swing-past Ceres.
What is Dawn?
The most popular type of planet found, and the approximate masses.
(DOUBLE JEOPARDY, must answer both parts to get points)
What are Hot Jupiters? What are 0.36 to 11.8 Jupiter masses?
The smallest stars to exist in the galaxy, and their rough radii.
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What are neutron stars? What are 10 km to 30 km?
The farthest distance from Earth that a manned mission traveled.
What is 248,655 miles? (lenient to plus or minus 20,000 miles)
The arm of the Milky Way Galaxy that the Earth is located in.
What is the Orion-Cygnus Arm?
This Japanese mission, meant to return material from a near-earth object asteroid, had two different reaction wheels fail in 2004 and 2005.
What is Hayabusa?
The name of the first planet discovered around a Sun-like star.
What is 51 Pegasi b?
This star is named after the Greek word for scorching.
What is Sirius?
The flavor of ice cream Ben & Jerry dedicated in 1969 to commemorate the moon landing.
Lunar cheesecake.
The name of the area through which the galactic center can be observed.
What is Baade's Window?