In our Solar System
The third planet from the Sun.
What is Earth?
This galaxy is where we are located.
What is the Milky Way?
The first human on the Moon.
Who was Neil Armstrong?
This astronomer discovered Saturn's rings.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
This road is where U of T's Astronomy Building is located.
What is St. George Street?
The planet with the most moons (at least 79!).
What is Jupiter?
The nearest star system to our Solar System.
What is Alpha Centauri?
The first artificial satellite launched.
What was Sputnik 1?
This astronomer first developed a mathematical model of heliocentrism (the idea that the Sun is the centre of the Solar System, not the Earth).
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
This U of T alum and former astronaut is now Governor General of Canada.
Who is Julie Payette?
The smallest planet in our Solar System.
What is Mercury?
The speed of light, rounded to one digit (don't forget the units!).
What is 3 x 10^8 m/s?
The first human in outer space.
Who was Yuri Gagarin?
These theories redefined theoretical physics and astrophysics, superseding Newton's classical mechanics.
What is the theory of relativity? (Yes, yes, I suppose quantum mechanics fits here as well).
This observatory in Richmond Hill, north of Toronto, was formerly owned by the University of Toronto and is now managed by the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada.
What is the David Dunlap Observatory?
The only tidal locked planet in the Solar System.
What is Mercury?
This is officially known as Alpha Ursae Minoris.
What is Polaris (or the North Star)?
The United States' first human spaceflight program.
What was Project Mercury?
This Catholic priest and physics professor originally developed the Big Bang theory.
Who was Georges Lemaitre?
This asteroid was named after the University of Toronto.
What is 2104 Toronto?
The time it takes our Solar System to orbit the Galactic Centre.
How long is 225-250 million years?
This galaxy is expected to merge with the Milky Way in roughly four and a half billion years.
What is Andromeda?
This JAXA mission was the first to successfully return a sample from an asteroid.
What was Hayabusa?
The merging of two of these objects last year in incident GW170817 was the first gravitational wave observation which has been confirmed by non-gravitational means.
What are neutron stars?
The telescope array created by U of T's Prof. Roberto Abraham which recently discovered a galaxy apparently without dark matter.
What is Dragonfly?