Stars & Constellations
The colossal explosion of a star.
What is a supernova?
The famous "Red Planet".
What is Mars?
The first manned mission to land on the Moon.
What is Apollo 11?
A region with such powerful gravity that not even light can escape it.
What is a black hole?
The galaxy we live in.
What is the Milky Way Galaxy?
The closest star to the Sun.
What is Proxima Centauri?
The only planet to be named after a Greek deity.
What is Uranus?
This spacecraft was launched in 1977 and reached interstellar space in 2012.
What is Voyager 1?
An event where the moon passes between the Sun and Earth, blocking sunlight.
What is a solar eclipse?
The closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
This constellation holds the North Star.
What is Ursa Minor?
The planet with the most moons in our solar system.
What is Saturn?
A dust storm on Mars back in 2018 caused this rover to lose contact with Earth.
What is Opportunity?
Molecular clouds of dust, hydrogen, helium, etc.
What are nebulae?
The name of the galaxy group that includes the Milky Way.
What is the Local Group?
A hunter represents this constellation.
What is Orion?
A large planet mostly composed of helium and/or hydrogen.
What is a gas giant?
The first animals sent to space (intentionally).
What are fruit flies?
Two stars bound together by gravity orbit a common center of mass.
What is a binary star system?
Galaxies with a round or oval shape.
What are elliptical galaxies?
The constellation is known as the "solitary thrush".
What is Turdus Solitarius?
The closest exoplanet to Earth.
What is Proxima Centauri b?
The first Canadian to go to space, as well as a retired Member of Parliament.
Who is Marc Garneau?
Extremely dense neutron stars with rapid rotation.
What are pulsars?
The amount of time it will take until the Andromeda-Milky Way collision.
How much is 4.5 billion years?