Stars
The closest star to Earth
What is the Sun?
Name of the first man on the moon
What is Neil Armstrong?
Planet known for its red tint in the Solar System
What is Mars?
A Black Hole is
What is a celestial object with a lot of gravity?
What is a dead star with a singularity?
The paradox that asks, "If there are so many places for life to exist, why can't we see extraterrestrial life?"
What is the Fermi Paradox?
The process of violent star death
What is a supernova?
Name of most recent outer-space mission
What is Artemis 2?
First exoplanet discovered to be in the habitable zone
What is Kepler-22b?
The center of our universe
What is Sagittarius A*?
What is a supermassive black hole?
Scale on which universes are scaled
(bonus for humanity's ranking)
The Kardashev scale (0.7)
The two elements used in stellar fusion
What is Hydrogen and Helium?
Space shuttle that exploded
What is Challenger?
Closest known habitable exoplanet
What is Proxima Centauri b?
A neutron star is born when
What is when a star goes supernova and the core collapses into a neutron star?
Solution to the Fermi Paradox, states that the universe is naturally hostile, so aliens keep quiet to avoid being killed
What is the Dark Forest Theory?
The final element made via stellar fusion prior to violent star death
What is iron?
Date of Hubble Space Telescope's launch
What is April 24th, 1990? (approx. year is accepted)
The three-body problem is a physics problem where
What is three equally-massed celestial objects orbiting each other cannot have their paths predicted?
Theoretical force accelerating the expansion of the universe
What is dark energy?
Solution to the Fermi Paradox, states that there is an unavoidable extinction event that kills all civilizations before they can begin deep-space exploration
What is the Great Filter Theory?
The largest observed star in the universe
What is UY Scuti/Stephenson 2-18?
NASA was founded on
What is July 29th, 1958? (approx. year is accepted)
Name of the planet with the most rings ever observed?
What is J1407b?
(100 points for "Saturn")
The manner in which Black Holes die
What is Hawking radiation?
Solution to the Fermi Paradox, states that humanity is being nurtured like an animal and is purposefully being allowed to develop on its own
What is the Zoo Theory?