Gas Giants
Our Solar System
Outside our solar system
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What are hot jupiters 

What are Exoplanets that are gas giants that orbit really close to a sun like star

100

What is Uranus atmosphere made of ?

What is hydrogen, helium, and methane

100

What is important about 51 Pegasi

What is its spectroscopy revealed the first section of am exoplanet orbiting a sun like star.

100

What are highlands

What is light- colored heavily cratered areas on the moon

100

What are the names of your coaches?

What is Lindsey and Victoria

200

What is the method used to detect exoplanets 

What is the radical velocity method

200

What does Neptune's spectroscopy reveal?

What is methane absorption bands and icy components 

200

What is the exoplanet to main sequence star HD 209458

What is Osiris 

200

What is an exosphere

What is an extremely thin outer atmosphere where particles can escape into space

200

What college do your coaches go to? 

What is UCR or University of California Riverside 

300

What was the first hot jupiter discovered

What is 51 PEG b

300

Name two dwarf planets in our solar system

What is Pluto and Ceres

300

What does Beta Pictoris spectroscopy reveal?

What is a dusty disk and a variety of absorption lines from comets falling toward the star

300

What is infrared emission

Heat radiation from stars or planets,  showing internal heat or active  processes 

300

What is the major of one of your coaches?

What is Public Policy or Physics

400

What is the snow line

What is the boundry where rocks and metals condense and carbon and ice form.

400

What is Itokawa

What is an asteroid 

400

What do the gaps on HL Tauri disk hint at

What is possible forming planets

400

What is contact binary

What is two smaller bodies joined together to form one

400

When do we have our first competition 

What is January 2026

500

What are gas giants mostly composed of

What is Helium or hydrogen

500

What is the coma of Temple 1 

What is a gas cloud of sublimated ice

500

What kind of atmosphere does 486958 Arrokoth have

What is no atmosphere 

500

What are methane bands ?

What is specific wavelengths of light absorbed by methane, used to detect it in giant planets and icy bodies.

500

What event are we competing in

What is solar systems

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