Cosmic Firsts
The name of the first moon landing.
What is Apollo 11?
Known for a giant storm that has raged for hundreds of years in a red spot.
What is Jupiter?
Developed the laws of motion and universal gravitation, which explain how objects move in space.
Who was Isaac Newton?
This law states that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.
A pseudoscience that people often confuse for astronomy.
What is astrology?
The first satellite to orbit the Earth.
What is Sputnik?
What is Venus?
The first American in space who was apart of the Mercury-Redstone mission.
Who was Alan Shepard?
This law states that planets follow elliptical orbits.
What is Kepler's First Law?
A region of space in which gravity in so intense that light cannot escape it.
What is a black hole?
The smallest planet in our solar system.
What is Mercury?
This woman calculated the flight path for NASA's first manned space mission in 1962.
Who was Katherine Johnson?
This law states galaxies are moving away from the Earth at speeds proportional to their distance.
What is Hubble's Law?
What is a new moon?
The name of the first US space program and first crewed mission into space.
What is Mercury-Redstone?
This planet appears to spin sideways.
What is Uranus?
Modern science communicator and director of the Hayden Planetarium. Known for declaring Pluto should not be a planet.
Who is Neil deGrasse Tyson?
States the force acting on an object is equal to its mass multiplied by its acceleration (F=ma).
What is Newton's Second Law?
This observatory is located in Ann Arbor at the University of Michigan.
What is the Judy & Stanley Frankel Detroit Observatory?
This type of telescope was invented in 1608 by Hans Lippershey, a Dutch eyeglass maker.
What is the refracting telescope?
One day on this planet is about 24.6 hours.
What is Mars?
This man proposed the heliocentric model (the Sun is at the center of the solar system, not the Earth).
Who was Nicolas Copernicus?
A planet covers the same area of space in the same amount of time no matter where it is in its orbit
What is Kepler's Second Law?
Known as the North Star, and is the 45th brightest star in the night sky.
What is Polaris?