Solar System
This planet was kicked out of the solar system in 2006
What is Pluto?
The name of the mission that took us to the Moon
What is Apollo?
These are the dark areas on the Sun's surface
What are Sunspots?
This is the brightest star in the night sky
What is Sirius?
This UCLA professor won a Nobel Prize for her work on discovering Sagittarius A*.
Who is Professor Andrea Ghez?
This planet has a day that is longer than its year
What is Venus?
This spacecraft was the first to travel past our Solar System
What is Voyager 1?
This describes the Sun’s life cycle stages
What is the Main Sequence?
This is the plane of the solar system in the night sky
What is the Ecliptic?
This scientist discovered pulsars
Who is Jocelyn Bell Burnell?
This region separates the Jovian and the terrestrial planets
What is the asteroid belt?
Launched in 2018, this is the first spacecraft to fly into the Sun's atmosphere, gathering data to help scientists understand solar activity.
What is the Parker Solar Probe?
The length of the Solar Cycle (the cycle that the Sun’s magnetic field goes through)
What is 11 years?
Its name comes from Arabic for "armpit of the giant".
What is Betlegueuse?
These were first detected in 2015 by LIGO
What are Gravitational waves?
The most massive known dwarf planet
What is Eris?
This NASA mission performed a flyby exploration of both Pluto and the most distant object ever explored by a spacecraft
What is New Horizons?
A massive structure to capture nearly all of the Sun's energy
What is a dyson sphere?
This is the asterism defined by the three stars Vega, Altair, and Deneb
What is the Summer Triangle?
In 2024, the James Webb Space Telescope captured detailed images of this planet's auroras for the first time.
What is Neptune?
This is the only moon in our solar system to have its own magnetic field
What is Ganymede?
This helicopter hitched a ride to Mars and became the first aircraft to fly on another planet.
What is Ingenuity?
The peak wavelength at which the sun emits
500 nanometers
This is what causes stars to twinkle when viewed from Earth
What is astronomical scintillation/ atmospheric interference?
The first one of these space objects was discovered/confirmed in 1995
What is an Exoplanet (51 Pegasi b)?