Stars and Exoplanets
The other name for the "Habitable Zone".
What is the Goldilocks Zone?
The name of the telescope NASA is using to find new neutron stars, galaxies, and exoplanets.
What is James Webb?
The famous space telescope named after Edwin.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The astronomer who developed the heliocentric model of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The object that it at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The name of this object.
What is a black hole?
What is Sagittarius A*?
The closest exoplanet to Earth.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The distance between Earth and this exoplanet, to the nearest lightyear.
What is Proxima Centauri b?
What is 4 lightyears?
The name of the mars helicopter and the month it was grounded.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The day it was grounded.
What is Ingenuity & January?
What is January 18th?
The space telescope that is the size of a full tennis court and 3 stories high.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The year in which this telescope was launched.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope?
What is 2021?
The century in which Uranus was discovered.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The decade in which Uranus was discovered.
What is the 1700s?
What is the 1780s?
The type of galaxy that the Milky Way is.
What is a spiral galaxy?
The three types of star deaths.
What are white dwarf / black hole / neutron star?
The age of the universe when the newly discovered oldest black hole observed, was created.
What is 400 Million Years old?
The telescope that photographed the first picture of a black hole in galaxy M87.
What is the Event Horizons telescope?
The third country to land on the Moon.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The year in which this country landed on the Moon.
What is China?
What is 2013?
The three major types of galaxies.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The two other minor types of galaxies.
What are elliptical, spiral, and irregular?
What are barred spiral and lenticular?
Five of the seven classes of stars.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The seven classes of stars.
FOR TRIPLE POINTS: The seven classes of stars by temperature, lowest to highest.
What are M / K / G / F / A / B / O?
The origin country of the Space One Kairos rocket that blew up on its inaugural flight.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The month in which this rocket was launched.
What is Japan?
What is March?
The country in which the telescope is said to be invented.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The century in which the telescope is said to be invented.
What is the Netherlands?
What is the 1600s?
The decade in which NASA was founded.
What is the 1950s?
The percent of the universe that is dark matter (plus or minus 2%).
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The percent of matter that is dark matter (plus or minus 2%).
What is 27%?
What is 85%?
The four methods of exoplanet detection.
What are gravitational microlensing / direct imaging / radial velocity / transit?
The age of the universe when a recently found dead galaxy stopped producing stars.
What is 700 Million Years Old?
The astronomer that discovered Pluto using the 13'' Lawrence Lowell Telescope.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: The location of the Lawrence Lowell Telescope.
Who was Clyde Tombaugh?
What is Flagstaff, Arizona?
One of the eight major epochs in our universe's history.
FOR DOUBLE POINTS: Three of the eight major epochs in our universe's history.
FOR TRIPLE POINTS: The eight major epochs in our universe's history.
What is the Planck Epoch / Grand Unification Epoch / Inflationary Epoch / Electroweak Epoch / Quark Epoch / Hadron Epoch / Lepton Epoch / Photon Epoch
The number of galaxies visible outside the Milky Way with the naked eye.
What is nine?