History
In 1986, A particular disaster happened which sent 7 people to their tragic death. What was the name of the disaster?
Space Shuttle Challenger Disaster
What planet in the solar system is considered a failed star?
Jupiter
What is the heaviest element a star can fuse up to?
Iron (Fe)
Where is Ceres located at?
Asteroid Belt
What makes Light-years a significant unit of measurement?
It measures how much distance light travels in one year.
Where were the first astronomical observations carried out? -Think back to ancient times-
Bonus 200 points: What observations did they carry out?
Assyria and Babylonia
What is the largest canyon on the solar system called?
Bonus: 100 points if you could identify what planet it is on
Valles Marineris
In 1846, which planet was discovered by a prediction of another planet?
Neptune
What year was Uranus discovered?
1781
How fast is the solar system orbiting our Milky Way Galaxy?
At a whooping approximate of 515,000 miles per hour
What year did we get the first image of a Black Hole?
2019
What is the range in which the Kuiper Belt extends?
30 - 50AU
Who invented the spectroscope in 1818?
Joseph Fraunhofer
In 1929, which astronomer first described the redshift phenomenon and tied it to an expanding universe?
Edwin Hubble
What is Astrochemistry?
In 1054, Chinese, Japanese, and Islamic people observed a "New Star" visible until 1056. In 1731, this nebula was identified. What is the name of this nebula?
Crab Nebula
What is the approximate distance from the Earth to the Moon?
In 1930, the Dwarf planet, Pluto, was discovered. Who discovered Pluto?
Clyde Tombaugh
Who discovered Infrared Radiation?
William Hershel
What is the rarest element on Earth?
Bonus 400 points if you could identify the half-life AND its atomic number.
Astatine
What is the book called in which Nicolaus Copernicus proposed the Heliocentric Model?
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Sphere)
How much of Earth's atmosphere is made up of Nitrogen and Oxygen?
78% Nitrogen and 21% Oxygen
Describe the Doppler Effect
The Change in frequency in which you hear when a source and observer are moving with respect to each other, eg. redshift
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram?
It's a graph that plots the temperature of a star against its absolute luminosity
What is the Tychonic System?
The system invented by Tycho Brahe in which the planets orbit the sun, the moon orbits the earth, and the sun orbits the Earth.