Galaxies
This is the name of the galaxy we live in
What is the Milky Way?
The nearest star to the Earth
What is the Sun?
This gas giant is the largest planet in our solar system
What is Jupiter?
This famous space telescope was launched into low Earth orbit aboard the space shuttle Discovery in 1990
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The first human to orbit Earth was from this country
What is the USSR (or Russia)?
This is the name of the nearest major galaxy to Earth
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
What is Proxima Centauri?
This planet takes only 88 Earth days to orbit the Sun once
What is Mercury?
This object with extreme gravity forms at the end of the life of a high mass star
What is a black hole?
The famous first words on the Moon: "That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind" were uttered by this American astronaut
This type of galaxy is defined by its curved, pinwheel like arms
What is a spiral galaxy?
The hottest known stars in the universe appear as this colour
What are comets?
This man made problem is making it harder to observe the cosmos, especially from urban centers.
What is light pollution?
This curious rover landed on the surface of the red planet in what year?
When is 2012?
The large and small magellanic clouds orbit the milky way. They are a type of small galaxy named:
What are dwarf galaxies?
The largest star with a reliable size estimate, UY Scuti, has a diameter of 909 times that of the Sun. If placed in our solar system, it would reach the orbit of this planet.
What is Saturn?
So far, three interstellar comets have been discovered passing through our solar system. The most recent one was discovered in this year
When is 2025
This is the largest constellation in the sky
What is Hydra?
The first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, orbited the Earth 48 times on the Vostok 6 mission, which took place in this year.
When is 1963
There are about 150 galaxies within the supercluster the milky way is a part of. The supercluster is named after this constellation, where many of its member galaxies appear in the sky.
Our galaxy, the Milky Way, contains an estimated 100 billion stars. The nearest major galaxy to ours is the Andromeda galaxy, which contains this many stars.
What is 1 Trillion?
The dwarf planet Pluto takes this many years to orbit the Sun.
The largest single aperture optical telescope is this many meters in diameter.
What is 10.4?
The first exoplanet discovered orbiting a Sun like star was discovered in this year.
When is 1995?