History
This is the model of the universe where the Earth and other planets orbit the Sun
What is heliocentrism?
This is the layer of the sun that we see
What is the photosphere?
The two major types of telescopes
What are refracting and reflecting?
These are the names of NASA's Four Great Observatories
What are the Hubble Space Telescope, Compton Gamma Ray, Spitzer Space Telescope, and Chandra X-Ray?
This term describes when one nation's technological advance leads to a greater push in education and research by other nations as they try to catch up.
What is a Sputnik moment?
These were the causes of the fatal Apollo 1 fire
What were pure oxygen environment, hard to open, inward-opening hatch, flammable items, and lack of safety protocols?
These are the rocky planets
This is what it means to travel beyond Mach 1
What is to go faster than the speed of sound or to go supersonic speed?
This is the farthest distance humans have been from the Earth so far?
What is 252,756 miles (Artemis 2)?
This layer of the earth is liquid
What is the outer core?
This ancient model of the universe features a "firmament" or dome separating the waters above and below
What is the Biblical model of the universe?
This is the length of a season on Uranus
What is 21 Earth years?
This is the weakest of the four forces of nature.
What is gravity?
This is the approximate number of stars in our galaxy
What is 200-400 billion?
These are the phases of the moon following a New Moon
What are Waxing Crescent, 1st quarter, Waxing Gibbous, Full Moon, Waning Gibbous, 3rd/last Quarter, Waning Crescent?
He was the first person to use a telescope to view the night sky
Who was Galileo?
This first successfully landed Mars Rover was the first wheeled vehicle to operate on an astronomical surface that was not the Earth or the Moon.
What was Sojourner (1997)?
This law of physics states that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
What is Newton's Third Law of Motion?
These parts of our cosmic address are missing:
1523 55th Ave S, Fargo,ND, USA, North America, Earth, Solar System, [?], Milky Way Galaxy, [?], The Observable Universe, The Universe
What are the Orion Arm and the Laniakea Supercluster?
This is the name for the dark, flat plains found on the surface of the moon (one of which was the site of the Apollo 11 moon landing)
What are Marias (Mares, Seas)?
Greek proponent (supporter/advocate) of the geocentric model of the universe
Who was Ptolemy?
This is how long it takes sunlight to reach Neptune
What is 4 hrs 10 mins?
This type of light has the shortest wavelength and highest energy
What are gamma-rays?
This is the closest major spiral Galaxy to the Milky Way Galaxy
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
These are the final two stages of the life cycle of a medium sized star
What are white dwarf and black dwarf?