Solar System
This is the smallest planet in the Solar System.
What is Mercury?
A type of telescope used by Galileo, it uses lenses.
What is a refractor?
This movie features a supermassive blackhole.
What is Interstellar?
These are the most common stars on the Main Sequence?
What are Red Dwarfs?
The Greek astronomer who determined the size of the Earth using basic trigonometry?
Who was Eratosthenes?
This object was downgraded to a dwarf planet by the IAU in 2006.
What is Pluto?
The great observatories of the world use this type of telescope.
What is a reflector?
The Movie "the Dish" took place in which country?
Australia
This is the most abundance element in the Universe.
What is hydrogen?
He derived the basic laws of orbital motion using Tycho's Mars data.
Who was Kepler?
These objects are often called "dirty snowballs".
What are comets?
This is the most important aspect of a telescope and why size is important.
What is light gathering power?
The name of the movie that featured 3 black women working for NASA in the early 1960's.
What is Hidden Figures?
The type of nebula produced during the dying phases of a low mass star.
What is a planetary nebula.
He discovered the 4 largest satellites of Jupiter, phases of Venus and the craters on the Moon.
Who is Galileo?
This planet was discovered in 1781 and has rings, lots of methane and an axial tilt of 98 degrees.
What is Uranus?
This telescope was heavily damaged by Hurricane Maria in 2020, it is now out of commission.
What is Arecibo?
A space disaster lunar mission that NASA called a "successful failure".
What is Apollo 13?
These are found in the core of every galaxy.
What are supermassive black holes?
Known for his theories on optics and the invention of the reflecting telescope.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This planet has 2 small Moons, ice caps, huge volcanoes and ancient river valleys.
What is Mars?
With a diameter of 6.5 m, it is the largest space telescope,
What is the JWST? (James Web Space Telescope)
In Greenland, what kind of comet was Clarke?
What is an extrasolar comet?
it is estimated that 97% of all stars will end as one of these objects.
What is a white dwarf?
He had the crippling disease of ALS and best known for his work on black holes.
Who was Stephen Hawking?