People & History
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Exoplanets
100
This person predicted the existence of gravitational waves.
Who is Albert Einstein?
100
This is what the "r" stands for in Kepler's Third Law equation.
What is the semi-major axis?
100
This is the name of the graph that plots the surface temperature and luminosity of stars.
What is an HR Diagram?
100
This thin and wispy structure is the outermost part of the Sun’s atmosphere.
What is the corona?
100
This method uses the periodic changes of brightness of a star over time to determine if it has any exoplanets.
What is the transit method?
200
This person's contributions to astronomy cannot be understated..but some of them sure were ... otherwordly.
Who is William Herschel?
200
This law states that the total energy emitted from a black body is proportional to the temperature.
What is the Stefan Boltzmann law?
200
This celestial body appears at the end of a low mass star’s lifetime.
What is a white dwarf?
200
This is the name of the color where the sun's light peaks in wavelength.
What is green?
200
These are the two most common ways to discover exoplanets.
What is radial velocity and transit method?
300
This person discovered that Andromeda is another galaxy.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
300
This fundamental force doesn’t have a positive or repulsing component.
What is gravity?
300
This explosion occurs when the mass gained by a white dwarf exceeds the Chandrasekhar Limit.
What is a type 1a Supernova?
300
This theory's first observational confirmations were made by The Sun's deflection of starlight.
What is General Relativity?
300
A kind of exoplanet high in mass but very close to its star.
What is a Hot Jupiter?
400
The name of the person who discovered that matter rotated too quickly around the edges of the galaxies, thereby giving way to the discovery of dark matter.
Who is Vera Rubin?
400
This law states that an orbit can be generalized into an ellipse.
What is Keplers First Law?
400
This celestial body isn’t expected to appear in the universe for another 10 trillion years.
What is a black dwarf?
400
The Carrington Event in 1859 was caused by “this” astronomical event.
What is a coronal mass ejection (CME)?
400
Exoplanet’s earth-sized or smaller, composed of rock and/or metal, could have oceans, atmospheres or other habitable properties.
What are terrestrial exoplanets?
500
This person treated photons as having quantized amounts of energy.
Who is Planck.
500
This law describes the relationship between the temperature of a black body and the wavelength at which it emits the most radiation.
What is Wien’s law?
500
These stars will rip the iron from your blood at a thousand light years.
What is a magnetar?
500
This is the stellar class and type of star the sun is.
What is a G-type main sequence star?
500
This study can analyze the atmosphere of an exoplanet for biosignatures
What is spectroscopy?