Exoplanets
A classification of exoplanet defined by their large, gaseous mass (0.36 to 13.6 times mass of Jupiter), close orbit to their stars, and an oscillation period 1.3–111 Earth days.
What is a Hot Jupiter?
A method of measuring a civilization's level of technological advancement based on the amount of energy it is capable of harnessing and using.
What is the Kardashev scale?
The closest galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
The change in the frequency of a wave in relation to an observer who is moving relative to the source of the wave.
What is the Doppler Effect?
The actual name of Earth's Moon?
What is "The Moon"?
A rotating neutron star that emits regular pulses of radiation, such as radio waves, x-rays, and gamma rays.
What is a pulsar?
A proposed solution to the Fermi Paradox. It states that many alien civilizations exist throughout the universe, but they are both silent and hostile, maintaining their undetectability for fear of being destroyed by another hostile and undetected civilization.
What is the "Dark Forest Hypothesis"?
The largest star within a couple lightyears of the earth.
What is the Sun?
A unit of distance used in astronomy, equal to about 3.26 light years.
What is a Parsec?
A professor of astrophysical sciences at Princeton University, a co-investigator in NASA’s ongoing Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite mission, and the author of The Little Book of Exoplanets.
Who is Professor Joshua Winn?
The scientific study of the positions and movements of celestial objects, such as stars and planets. By measuring tiny changes in the star's position as it wobbles around its centre of mass, this has been used to discover numerous exoplanets.
What is Astrometry?
A United States Air Force (USAF) officer, former intelligence official, and a UFO whistleblower. In June 2023, testified in a U.S. House of Representatives hearing, claiming that the U.S. federal government was involved in the recovery and reverse engineering of "non-human spacecraft".
Who is David Grusch?
A galaxy type with a rotating disc of stars, gas, and dust that has spiral arms that curve out from a central bulge. The milky way is this galaxy type.
What is a spiral galaxy?
The weakest fundamental force.
What is Gravity?
Give at least 2 reasons for why the Flat Earth Model is wrong.
Trick question! It's not
The first confirmed exoplanet discovered orbiting a main-sequence star like our Sun.
What is 51 Pegasi b?
The spacecraft sent to conduct reconnaissance of Jupiter's moon, Europa, and investigate whether the icy moon could harbor conditions suitable for life.
What is the Europa Clipper?
About ___% of the Milky Way is visible from Earth.
What is 0.000003%?
States that planets move in elliptical orbits with the Sun as a focus.
What is Kepler's First Law?
The 1996 American live-action/animated sports comedy film directed by Joe Pytka and written by Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Timothy Harris, and Herschel Weingrod.
What is Space Jam?
The closest known exoplanet to Earth. (Points to team who has closest guess on distance away).
What is Proxima Centauri b? (About 4 light-years away).
United States Wisconsin Senator (1957-1989) who gave NASA's SETI program the Golden Fleece Award in 1978.
Who is Senator William Proxmire?
This planet has the shortest day night cycle in the entire solar system?
What is Jupiter?
The first animal sent to space on a one-way-trip (points for both stating the type of animal and her name).
Who was Laika the Dog?
What is my star sign?
Leo