Planets
What is the closest planet to the sun?
Mercury
What is the closest star to Earth?
The Sun
How many planets are in our solar system?
8
Who developed the theory of Special Relativity?
Albert Einstein
What is the speed of light?
299,792,458 m/s
What is the furthest Planet furthest from the sun?
Neptune
What constellation is the big dipper a part of?
Ursa Major
How many planets have rings in our solar system?
4
Who discovered Jupiter's four largest moons?
Galileo Galilei
What shape are planetary orbits?
Elliptical
What is the hottest planet in our solar system?
Venus
What is the spectral classification of the Sun. (OBAFGKM)
G2
What lies past all of the planets in our solar system?
Kuiper Belt
Who discovered the laws of planetary motion?
Johannes Kepler
What percentage of the universe does dark matter and dark energy make up? (Answer must be within +/- 5% of the actual answer)
~95%
What planet has the most moons?
Saturn
What constellation is Betelgeuse a part of?
Orion
How many dwarf planets does our solar system have?
5
What century was the first telescope invented?
What is the apparent backwards motion of a planet?
Retrograde
What planet that takes ~687 Earth days to complete its orbit around the sun.
Mars
What is the temperature of the outside of the Sun?
~5700K
Which planet protects Earth due to its gravity?
Jupiter
Who was the first person to calculate the Earth's circumference and size?
Eratosthenes
What is the apparent shift of an object's position when looked at from two different points? (Think of the apparent shifting of stars at different time of year)
Parallax