History
Invented calculus because of a dare to explain the elliptical orbit of planets.
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
Elementary Particle that gives mass
What is higgs boson?
A method of detecting exoplanets that involve looking for wobble in the host star.
What is the radial velocity method?
Host and co-host of Star Talk.
What is Neil deGrasse Tyson and Chuck Nice.
The sky is blue because of a phenomenon
Rayleigh scattering
This planet was discovered and then observed.
What is Neptune?
Major quantum phenomena that allows fusion in stars
Quantum tunneling
Classification of planets that range slightly larger than the Earth to the size of Neptune.
What are super-Earths?
Narrated the Pale Blue Dot.
What is Carl Sagan?
For the hydrogen atom, the series that describes electron transitions to the N=1 orbit, the lowest energy electron is the...
What are the Lyman series?
Discovered that the Sun and stars are almost entirely hydrogen and helium.
What is Cecilia Payne?
Einstein's happiest moment (a principle)
What is equivalence principle?
TESS stands for...
What is Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite?
The time passed [hour and minute] on Miller's planet since the release of Interstellar [the movie is 9 years old].
What is 1 hour 3 minutes?
A book written by Sir Issac Newton which started theoretical astrophysics.
What is Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica?
The father of modern astrophysics.
What is Angelo Secchi?
EPR paradox stands for
Einstein Podolsky Rosen
Latest planetary mission by NASA launched to search for signs of fife on Jupiter's ocean moon.
What is NASA's Europa Clipper?
This book series first debuted on the radio and then published the year after.
What is Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy?
LASER stands for...
What is light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation?
The name and year of the first black hole discovered.
What Cygnus X-1 and 1971?
The name of hypothetical particle believed to account for dark matter.
What is WIMP (Weakly Interacting Massive Particle)?
The first exoplanet discovered to orbit a sun-like star.
Laws that the EM drive break if it were to be used.
What is Newton's 3rd Law of Motion and Conservation of Momentum?
A bet Stephen Hawking made with a physicist regarding the nature of black holes.
What is Kip Thorne?