Stars
NASA
Exoplanets
Extreme Beings
Alien Theory (2x points)
100

The closest star to Earth

What is the Sun?

100

Name of the first man on the moon

What is Neil Armstrong?

100

Planet known for its red tint in the Solar System

What is Mars?

100

A Black Hole is

What is the result of an enormous star collapsing?

What is a celestial object with a lot of gravity?

What is a dead star with a singularity?

100

The paradox that asks, "If there are so many places for life to exist, why can't we see extraterrestrial life?"

What is the Fermi Paradox?

200

The process of violent star death

What is a supernova?

200

Name of most recent outer-space mission

What is Artemis 2?

200

First exoplanet discovered to be in the habitable zone

What is Kepler-22b?

200

The center of our universe

What is Sagittarius A*?

What is a supermassive black hole?

200

Scale on which universes are scaled
(bonus for humanity's ranking)

The Kardashev scale (0.7)

300

The two elements used in stellar fusion

What is Hydrogen and Helium?

300

Space shuttle that exploded

What is Challenger?

300

Closest known habitable exoplanet

What is Proxima Centauri b?

300

A neutron star is born when

What is when a star goes supernova and the core collapses into a neutron star?

300

Solution to the Fermi Paradox, states that the universe is naturally hostile, so aliens keep quiet to avoid being killed

What is the Dark Forest Theory?

400

The final element made via stellar fusion prior to violent star death

What is iron?

400

Date of Hubble Space Telescope's launch

What is April 24th, 1990? (approx. year is accepted)

400

The three-body problem is a physics problem where

What is three equally-massed celestial objects orbiting each other cannot have their paths predicted?

400

Theoretical force accelerating the expansion of the universe

What is dark energy?

400

Solution to the Fermi Paradox, states that there is an unavoidable extinction event that kills all civilizations before they can begin deep-space exploration

What is the Great Filter Theory?

500

The largest observed star in the universe

What is UY Scuti/Stephenson 2-18?

500

NASA was founded on

What is July 29th, 1958? (approx. year is accepted)

500

Name of the planet with the most rings ever observed?

What is J1407b?

(100 points for "Saturn")

500

The manner in which Black Holes die

What is Hawking radiation?

500

Solution to the Fermi Paradox, states that humanity is being nurtured like an animal and is purposefully being allowed to develop on its own

What is the Zoo Theory?