Radiation
Planets
Stars
Galaxies
Black Holes
100

All radiation travels at this speed.

What is the speed of light?

100

True or False: The Moon is younger than the Earth

True

100
A white dwarf and red giant binary system can result in these two scenarios

Novae and/or Type Ia Supernova

100

Name the two main types of galaxies

Spiral and elliptical

100
Your friend falls into a black hole. Do you seen them cross the event horizon? Why/not?

No light crosses the event horizon.

200

Light from the Sun makes this kind of spectrum.

What is an absorption spectrum?
200

Venus and Earth both exhibit this phenomenon.

What is the greenhouse effect

200
Star A and B have the same luminosity, radius, and temperature. But Star A looks much brighter in the sky. Why?

They are at different distances

200
This is why we don't see all the pulsars there are in the Universe.

lighthouse model - not all pulsars' beams will sweep across the Earth

200

Old galaxies do not have quasars at their centers. Why?

BH ran out of gas to accrete.

300

Wien's Law relates these two variables

What are peak wavelength (or frequency) and temperature of an object?

300

True or False: All planets exhibit retrograde motion.

True

300

This is the efficiency of nuclear burning.

What is not a lot! (0.7%) E = mc^2
300

I observe Galaxy Steve. I see lots of nebulae, where new stars are forming. This is the type of galaxy Steve is.

What is a spiral galaxy

300

These 3 properties completely describe a black hole.

What are mass, electric charge (~0) and spin?

400
Emission spectra are caused by these two processed.

What are ionisation and recombination.

400
Name 2 methods of exoplanet detection
Radial velocity aka. Doppler wobble, and transit
400
This is the type of star where carbon is made

Red giant

400

Galaxy Bob emits strongly in the radio part of the spectrum. What could be at Bob's center.

A quasar aka. active galactic nuclei 

400

There is a black hole accreting gas at the center of a galaxy. What is this phenomenon called.

quasar
500

The Cosmic Microwave Background is measured in the microwave. What will we measure in 2 billion years.

Longer wavelength radiation e.g. radio

500
This is why the sky is blue.

What is Rayleigh scattering?

500
Brown dwarfs are failed stars and MACHOs. Why are they MACHOs?

They are very dark/do not really emit much light so are "dark matter"

500

This plot for a galaxy tells us galaxies have dark matter. 

What is a rotation curve

500

This phenomenon is why black holes can lose mass.

Virtual particle pair production (evaporation of black holes)

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