Stars
The Big Bang Theory
The Solar System
Exploring Space
Cultural Perspectives of Space
100

This is the closest star to Earth, providing us with warmth and light.

  • What is the Sun?


100

This event, which occurred around 13.8 billion years ago, is believed to be the origin of our universe.

What is the Big Bang Theory?

100

This is the largest planet in our solar system.

What is Jupiter?

100

This was the first spacecraft to land on the Moon in 1969.

What is Apollo 11?

100

A common theme in all creation stories.

What is a creator?

200

An celestial object that contains hundreds of millions of stars.

What is a galaxy?
200

These three element were created during the Big Bang.

What is hydrogen, helium, and lithium?

200

Much like your body, this planet lies half way from the Sun

What is Uranus

200

This rover, launched by NASA in 2011, is currently exploring the surface of Mars.

What is the Curiosity rover?

200

The being that is believed to create the Universe according to the Aboriginal culture.

What is the Rainbow Serpent?

300

This stellar phenomenon occurs when a massive star runs out of fuel, causing its core to collapse and explode in a burst of energy.

What is a supernova?

300

The Universe before the Big Bang.

What is a singularity?

300

The four planets closest to the Sun are known as these, characterized by their solid rocky surfaces.

What are the terrestrial planets?

300

This space telescope, launched in 1990, has provided some of the most detailed images of distant galaxies, nebulae, and planets.

What is the Hubble Space Telescope?

300

The scientist who popularised the fact that the Earth orbits the Sun rather than the Sun orbiting the Earth.

Who is Galileo?

400

This is the term for the life stage of a star like our Sun after it exhausts its nuclear fuel and expands into a red giant.

What is a red giant?

400

The discovery of this type of radiation in 1965 provided key evidence supporting the Big Bang theory.

What is Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation?

400

The unit used for describing the distance from the Sun to the Earth.

What is an Astronomical Unit?
400

A type of telescope that does not use visible light. 

What is a radio telescope?

400

A famous Disney movie that measures the stars for navigation. 

What is Moana?

500

A star’s color and temperature are most accurately described by this kind of chart, which plots stars by their luminosity and spectral type.

What is the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?

500

The effect where galaxies turn red as they are travelling away from the observer.

What is red shift?

500
A flat disc created during the formation of a protostar.

What is accretion disc?

500

This probe is currently on the way to the Sun. 

What is the Solar Probe?
500

This ancient Greek philosopher proposed that the Earth was round and centered the universe around it, rather than around the Sun.

Who is Aristotle?