Astrophysics
Space-Themed Lyrics
Galaxies
Mythology
Astronomy in Different Languages
100

What phenomenon on Earth is the result of the Moon's gravity tugging at Earth?

Tides

100

Let me play among the stars
Let me see what spring is like on
A-Jupiter and Mars

Fly Me to the Moon by Frank Sinatra

100

The name of our galaxy

The Milky Way

100

This Roman goddess of love and beauty shares her name with the hottest planet in the Solar System

Venus

100

天文学

Japanese

200

What quantity is equal to the speed of light at a black hole's event horizon?

Escape Velocity

200

This is Major Tom to Ground Control
I'm stepping through the door
And I'm floating in a most peculiar way
And the stars look very different today

Space Oddity by David Bowie

200

The black hole in the middle of our galaxy

Sagittarius A Star

200

The largest moon in the Solar System, it shares its name with a Trojan prince and cupbearer for the Greek Gods.

Ganymede

200

αστρονομία

Greek

300

What is the acceleration due to gravity on Earth, rounded to three significant figures?

9.81 m/s2

300

I miss the Earth so much I miss my wife
It's lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

Rocket Man by Elton John

300

The galaxy closest to us

Andromeda

300

Mars' two moons were named for Ares' sons, the gods of fear and dread/terror respectively. What are their names?

Phobos and Deimos

300

tähtitiede

Finnish

400

What sort of apparent displacement as a result of a change in an observer's point of view can be used to measure our distance from stars?

(Stellar) Parallax

400

We're leavin' together
But still it's farewell
And maybe we'll come back
To Earth, who can tell?

The Final Countdown by Europe

400

What is our galaxy group (essentially a region of galaxies) called?

The Local Group

400

This Egyptian god was believed to be the embodiment of the Sun and creator of the universe

Ra

400

ਖਗੋਲ ਵਿਗਿਆਨ

Punjabi

500

Identify the strongest of the four fundamental forces

The Strong Nuclear Interaction

500

And you know I might
Have just flown too far from the floor this time
'Cause they calling me by my name
And the zipping white light beams
Disregards the bombs and satellites

Spaceman by The Killers

500

What type of galaxy makes up approximately 20% of all galaxies?

Lenticular

500

This largest Neptunian moon is the only major moon in the Solar System with a retrograde orbit and shares its name with a merman son of Poseidon

Triton

500

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Swahili

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