About Astronomy Club
Our Club Advisor
Who is Mr. Philip Becker?
The constellation that contains the Big Dipper
What is Ursa Major/"Larger Bear"?
This is REQUIRED to be on a planet for it to be classified as habitable
What is Liquid Water?
The 4 countries that have successfully landed on the Moon in chronological order
What are the Soviet Union, the United States of America, China, and India?
It takes _____ minutes an _____ seconds for light to reach Earth from the Sun.
What is 8 minutes and 20 seconds?
Including this week, the number of meetings have we had so far this year
What is 5?
Commonly referred to as the "Southern Cross"
What is Crux?
The habitable planet that is CLOSEST to Earth
What is Proxima Centauri b?
The first manned flight around the Moon
What is Apollo 8?
______ first proposed the ______ model of the solar system in the early 1500s, which went against the previous beliefs
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus, who first propose the heliocentric model of the solar system?
2 items we sold at Pigskin this year
What are Jamba Juice / shirts / pens / stickers?
The brightest 2 stars in the Orion constellation
What are Betelgeuse and Rigel?
The special region around a star where liquid water could be present on a planet
What is the Goldilocks Zone / Habitable Zone?
The first spacecraft to orbit another planet (besides Earth)
What is Mariner 9?
The disk that encircles a black hole
What is the Accretion Disk?
Our club's first year
What is 2019 - 2020?
The next North Star after Polaris
What is Gamma Cephei/Errai?
These are 2 of the 4 classifications of Exoplanets
What are Gas Giants / Neptune-like / Super-Earths / Terrestrial?
The 3 Mars Rovers that are still active today
What are Curiosity, Perseverance, and Zhurong?
3 of the 7 classes in the most common classification of stars
What are O / B / A / F / G / K / M stars?
Our Vice President LAST YEAR (2022 - 2023)
Who is Shreya Modak?
The constellation whose name means "The Fly"
What is Musca?
Titan is the closest body in the solar system in the Solar System that has a suitable atmosphere in which humans could survive. These make up its lakes and rivers.
What are Methane and Ethane?
A future space mission that will look for signs of life / habitability
What is ExoMars / Europa Clipper?
The condition when 3 celestial bodies are arrange in a straight line
What is syzygy?