Telescopes
What is the name of the color distortion that occurs in an image when using lenses?
What is chromatic aberration?
What is Earth?
What is the current primary fuel source of the Sun?
What is hydrogen?
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
What nebula can be found if you look in the constellation Orion's "belt"?
What is the diameter size of the telescope on the top of White Hall in inches?
What is 14 inches?
What are the names of Mars's moons?
What are Phobos and Deimos?
What is the name for an apparent pattern made by stars in Earth's night sky?
What is a constellation?
What is the name and classification of the object at the center of the Milky Way galaxy?
What is Sagittarius A* and black hole?
What is the name of the nebula that formed as a result of a supernova explosion that was famously visible from Earth during the daytime in 1054 C.E.?
What is the Crab Nebula?
In what century was the first reflecting telescope invented?
What is the name for the collection of planets that lie outside the asteroid belt (not "gas giants")?
What are Jovian planets?
What is the next closest star to Earth after the Sun?
What is Alpha Centauri? (100 bonus points if you said it was a three-star system)
Approximately how many times bigger than the Milky Way is the currently-known largest galaxy in the universe?
What is 50 times?
In what nebula can you find the Pillars of Creation?
What is the Eagle Nebula?
Increasing the radius of curvature of the mirror of a reflector telescope _______ the focal length?
What is increases?
What chemical gives Uranus and Neptune their brilliant blue hues?
What is methane?
Stars born with fewer than this many solar masses will leave behind a white dwarf upon death.
What is four?
What is the current best-estimate for the number of galaxies in the Virgo Supercluster (to the nearest 100)?
What is 1300?
What nebula is famously called the "Rotten Egg Nebula" because of its large concentration of hydrogen sulfide?
What is the Calabash Nebula?
How large is the diameter of the Green Bank Telescope (to the nearest meter)?
What is 100 meters?
How long (down to the nearest minute) is one year on Earth?
What is 365 days, 5 hours, 49 minutes (Technically 48 minutes, 46 seconds)?
What are the seven letter designations of stars used in the Harvard spectral classification system?
What are O, B, A, F, G, K, and M?
What empirical evidence led to the postulation of dark matter?
What is the fact that objects in galaxies orbit about the center at a rate faster than what is predicted based on the amount of normal matter present?
What nebula is famous for being the coldest place in the universe?
What is the Boomerang Nebula?