Space exploration history
The first person in space
Hottest planet in the solar system.
What is Venus?
Volcanic moon which was the site of Anakin Skywalker and Obi-Wan Kenobi’s duel in Star Wars Episode III
What is Mustafar?
This mysterious substance has no interaction with anything except through gravity. It keeps galaxies gravitationally bound
What is dark matter?
Which scientist is famous for proposing that the sun was at the center of the universe, not the Earth?
Copernicus
The name of the first artificial satellite
What is Sputnik?
The only planet in our solar system NOT named after a Roman god
What is Earth?
A massive black hole featured in the film Interstellar was extraordinarily accurate to the photo of a black hole developed later
What is Gargantua?
These are the brightest objects in the universe, though they form from objects of pure darkness
What are quasars?
What is the name of the first astronaut to walk on the Moon?
Neil Armstrong
The month and year of the last moon landing
When was December 1972?
The name of Pluto’s largest moon, named after a Greek mythology figure
What is Charon?
The human colony planet which is the setting of the 2010 6th installment of the Halo series and prequel to the original game
What is Reach?
This natural law explains why faraway stars appear so dim and why gravity dissipates with distance
What is the Inverse Square Law?
OR What is redshifting?
Which was published first, Einstein’s theory of general relativity or theory of special relativity?
The theory of special relativity was published in 1905, while the theory of general relativity was published in 1915
The fastest-moving spacecraft relative to the sun
What is the Parker Solar Probe?
Chemical compound responsible for the ‘rotten egg’ smell on Uranus
What is Hydrogen Sulfide (H2S)?
The real star where former President of the Galaxy Zaphod Beeblebrox originates from in Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
What is Betelgeuse?
This hypothetical scenario postulates how, given a non-zero chance that universal entropy can spontaneously decrease, complex objects can arise in the vacuum of space
What is the Boltzmann brain?
Which scientist is famous for the development of the three laws of planetary motion?
Kepler
The first space probe to cross the asteroid belt
What is Pioneer 10?
Zone of energetic charged particles that are held around Earth by a magnetic field.
What are the Van Allen radiation belts?
The constantly shifting planet that the wayfarer crew is traveling to for a job in Becky Chambers’ Long Way to a Small Angry Planet
What is Hedra Ka?
This is (as of writing), the farthest object ever observed. It is a lyman-break galaxy whose light has travelled 13.53 billion lightyears (The actual galaxy would be approx. 33.8 billion ly away)
What is MoM-z14? (Partial credit: What is GN-z11, JADES-GS-z13, JADES-GS-z14?)
What is the name of the astronomer who discovered pulsars as a graduate student, but whose advisor won the Nobel Prize for the discovery?
Joselyn Bell Burnell