Planets
Which planet in our solar system rotates backwards?
What is Venus
What type of star is the sun?
What is a main-sequence star
What is the closest galaxy to us?
What is the Andromeda galaxy
Which astronomer was held at trial for believing the Earth revolves around the Sun?
Who is Galileo Galilei?
What constellation is the Big Dipper in?
What is Ursa Major
Which planet has the "Great dark spot"?
What is Neptune
What color are the hottest stars?
What are blue stars
What comet orbits the solar system every 76 years?
What is Halley's comet
In 1915, Which Theoretical physicist's theories of general relativity shaped our understanding of gravity, space, time, and predicted the existence of black holes?
Who is Albert Einstein?
What constellation is the bigger hunting dog of Orion?
What is Canis Major
Zone in space for a planet like Earth that can support life
What is the Goldilocks Zone
What type of star goes into supernova near the end of its life?
What are supergiant stars
What star is rapidly rotating and gives out beams of radiation like a light house?
What is a pulsar
An American astronomer in 1924 who changed the idea of nebulae at the time are actually galaxies. A famous NASA space telescope was named after him.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
What constellations are in the summer triangle?
What are Lyra, Cygnus, and Aquila
Type of exoplanet with a mass greater than Earth, but less than Neptune.
What is a Super Earth
Between which estimates is the number of stars in the Milky Way galaxy?
What are 100-400 billion stars
What is the core of galaxies powered by supermassive black holes?
What is a quasar
This famous theoretical physicist in 1974 discovered that black holes have radiation. This is known as "_______ Radiation"
Who is Stephen Hawking
Which constellation has the Markarian's Chain, a bunch of galaxies together?
What is Virgo
What is the 2nd largest Dwarf Planet in our solar system that created the term "dwarf planet" in 2006?
What is Eris?
Which star has so much mass, that one tablespoon weighs more than 1 billion tons?
What is a neutron star
What type of nebula is the Orion Nebula and the Carina Nebula?
What is a diffuse nebula and star-forming region
Who was the first American woman to be in space in 1983?
Who is Sally Ride?
What constellation is the star Mirfak in?
What is Perseus