Hubble Telescope
Who is it named after?
Edwin Powell Hubble
Name anything not in the milky way
Freebie
Name any constellation?
Freebie
When was it built?
1998
What galaxy do we live in?
The Milky Way
When was it launched?
April 14, 1990
How far away is the Andromeda Galaxy
2.5 million light years away
What are regarded as the oldest constellations
Orion and the Bull (Taurus)
over 290 people
How many galaxies are there? (think big!)
20 trillion +
What is it used for?
Deep space research
How many stars are in the system?
Around 1 trillion
Who first came up with constellations
Sumerian and Babylonians in Mesopotamia
How bright is the ISS? (1st brightest, 2nd, 3rd, 5th?)
2nd
What type of Galaxy is the Milky Way?
A Barred spiral galaxy
What "replaced" the hubble telescope?
James Webb Space Telescope
Can this be seen without a telescope?
Yes, if in the right location
What is the farthest constellation?
Trick question, stars are all varying distances away and therefore no one constellation is the "farthest"
Who came up with the ISS? (Extra points if you can name all of the organizations)
NASA (USA), Roscosmos (Russia/USSR), ESA (Europe), JAXA (Japan), and CSA (Canada)
How big is the observable universe?
93 billion light years across
How far has the hubble telescope seen?
13.4 billion light years away
When will Andromeda and the Milky Way collide?
4.5 billion years
How many constellations are there?
88
Who were the first people in the ISS?
Bill Shepherd, Yuri Gidzenko, and Sergei Krikalev
How big was the biggest (known) black hole?
about 100 billion times larger than our Sun, Phoenix A in the Phoenix Cluster