Solar System
What planet is known as the red planet?
mars
What was the first satellite to orbit earth?
Sputnik 1
What force keeps the planets orbiting around the sun?
Gravity
Which English physicist formulated the three laws of motion?
Isaac Newton
What is the name of the galaxy closest to the Milky Way?
Andromeda galaxy
which planet rotates on it axis clockwise?
Venus
Which apollo mission landed humans on the moon for the first time?
Apollo 11
What is the SI unit of energy?
Joule
Which physicist developed the theory of general relativity?
Albert Einstein
What is the name of the explosion that occurs when a massive star reaches the end of its life?
Supernova
What is one icy moon that is one of the leading candidates in the search for life?
europa/enceladus
What is the name of NASA's famous space telescope launched in 1990?
The hubble space telescope
What type of electromagnetic radiation has the shortest wavelength?
Gamma Rays
Who was the Italian astronomer who used a telescope to observe Jupiter’s four largest moons in 1610?
Gallery
Which moon of Saturn has a subsurface ocean and geysers that eject water-rich material into space to form saturns E ring?
Enceladus
Which is the largest moon in the solar syetm?
Ganymede.
What is the name of the telescope that observes primarily in infrared and launched in 2021?
The James webb space telescope
What is the name of the boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
event horizon
Who proposed the heliocentric model in 1543?
Copernicus
What type of star can spin hundreds of times per second and emit beams of radiation from its magnetic poles?
a pulsar
Which dwarf planet lies in the asteroid belt?
ceres
What is the name of one of the two nasa rovers currently active on mars?
Perseverance/Curiosity
What is the name of the effect in which light shifts toward longer wavelengths as an object moves away from an observer?
Redshift
What theory did Albert Einstein introduce in 1905 that established the relationship between space and time for observers moving at constant velocities?
Special relativity
What is the name of the phenomenon in which particles can escape from a black hole’s surroundings due to quantum effects, causing the black hole to lose energy over time?
Hawking raditation