The Solar System
Black Holes
Galaxies
Cosmology
Search for Extra Terrestrial Life
100
It contains about 99.8% of the mass of the solar system.
What is the sun?
100
This is the abstract boundary around a black hole where gravity is officially too strong for light to escape.
What is the event horizon?
100
The Galaxy we inhabit. Shares the name of a candy bar with a nougat filling.
What is the Milky Way?
100
This possible end of the universe is what would happen if DarK matter wins in its fight with dark energy.
What is the big crunch?
100
The female astronomer who pioneered the field and was the muse for Jodie Foster's character in Contact.
Who is Jill Tarter?
200
Before the swirling gasses and dust coalesced into planets, the solar system was called this.
What is a protoplanetery disc?
200
Black holes can be fully explained by these two characteristics.
What is mass and spin?
200
These extremely bright masses of energy are thought to have black holes within.
What is a quasar?
200
This is the end of the universe if dark energy not only wins but REALLY wins in its battle against dark matter.
What is the big rip?
200
This early experiment confirmed that you could get basic amino acids from the early stuff of the planet.
What is the Miller-Urey experiment?
300
This is the assumed reason why the first four planets are not gas giants.
What is the solar winds?
300
If a black hole is not quite massive enough to trap light it is simply known as one of these.
What is a neutron star?
300
The nearest Galaxy to the Milky Way, Sharing its name with a Greek princess.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
300
The theory of the multiverse comes from this new symphonic branch of physics.
What is String Theory?
300
Besides Carbon, this element is a contender for the back bone of ET life because it too has four free electrons.
What is Silicon?
400
This is the fellow who first had the guts to publicly claim that planets orbit the sun.
Who is Copernicus?
400
According to Einstein's theory of general relativity massive objects do this.
Bends the fabric of space time.
400
One of the three types of Galaxies, often characterized by their structures (or lack of them).
What are Irregular Galaxies
400
This elusive particle that gives all other particles their mass was finally discovered in 2013.
What is the Higgs Boson?
400
This transmission was designed by Carl Sagan and laser beamed into space in the hopes of being discovered by intelligent life.
What is the arecibo message?
500
Rings form when the debris orbiting a planet is inside this invisible boundary.
What is the roche limit?
500
This is term for the mass at which a star cannot form a stable white dwarf and will instead supernova.
What is the Chandresekar Limit.
500
Ellipticals are galaxies that are most likely the result of collisions between two of other galaxy types.
What are spirals?
500
Some 1998 research confirmed that all of these are moving away from us at an ACCELERATED rate.
What are galaxies?
500
This moon of Jupiter is a leading contender for life within our solar system.
What is Europa?
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