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The most luminous star of our stellar neighbood and brightest in the night sky.
What is Sirius?
100
The number of Full moons that if placed edge to edge in the sky would span from one horizon to the other.
What is 360?
100
Jupiter, at a distance of 5 Astronomical Units from the Sun, receives a ray of sunlight this long after its departure?
What is 40 minutes?
100
The ancient obelisks of Egypt marked solar noon when the shadows they cast pointed in this direction?
What is North?
100
The planet that most frequently passes Earth in orbit during it superior conjunction every 115 days.
What is Mercury?
200
The type of star created by the process of frictional heating in Earth's atmosphere.
What is a "shooting" star?
200
The type of electromagnetic radiation with the shortest wavelengths.
What is Gamma Rays?
200
This spacecraft is the only one that has ever travelled beyond the edge of our Solar System?
What is Voyager?
200
Each time zone on Earth is this many degrees wide and therefore differs in time by one hour from adjacent zones.
What is 15 degrees?
200
Current home to for NASA rovers named Curiosity, Pathfinder, Spirit, and Opportunity.
What is Mars?
300
Both the birthplace of stars and their graveyard after a supernova death.
What is a nebula?
300
The approximate weight of a 100lb woman on Earth if she is standing on the surface of the Moon?
What is 1/6 as much or 16 pounds (plus or minus 5)
300
The phenomena that first revealed to Edwin Hubble the curious trend that almost all other Galaxies are moving away from the Milky Way?
What is red shift?
300
A day on this planet is just 10 hours long?
What is Jupiter?
300
The spacecraft that has detected hundreds of extrasolar planets orbitting around distant stars?
What is Kepler Spacecraft?
400
The name of the largest individual object visible with the naked eye?
What is Betelgeuse?
400
The infintesimally small location at the core of a black hole with a mass equal to that of millions of stars.
What is the singularity?
400
The distance to our nearest neighboring star, Proxima Centauri?
What is 4 light years? ( plus or minus 1/2)
400
The day of the year with longest duration of daylight, highest noontime sun angle for all who live in the U.S.
What is June 21st or the Summer Solstice?
400
One of the four large Galilean moons of Jupiter with oceans of water hidden miles beneath its frozen surface.
What is Europa?
500
The Sun's apparent magnitude according to Ptolemy's scale that described the brightest star of the night sky as a 1.
What is -26? (plus or minus 1)
500
The massless, chargeless, and virtually undetectable particles produced by the process of nuclear fusion in the Sun's core.
What is a neutrino?
500
The most distant galaxies ever seen are about this many light years away and appear as the were an equal number of Earth years ago.
What is 13-14 Billion?
500
The time required for the Earth to complete exactly one rotation with respect to the stars, and the length of a sidereal day.
What is 23 hours and 56 minutes?
500
The slowest orbiting of the planets which taking 165 Earth years to complete one revolution around the Sun.
What is Neptune?