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THESE WERE DETECTED BY LIGO AFTER TWO BLACK HOLES COLLIDED ONE BILLION LIGHT-YEARS AGO
What are gravitational waves?
THIS IS THE TERM USED TO DESCRIBE A STAR THAT HAS STABILIZED
What is a main sequence star?
F = ma
Who is Issac Newton?
What is ln(epi)?
What is pi?
THE UNIVERSITY AT WHICH ALBERT EINSTEIN RECEIVED HIS DOCTORATE
What is University of Zurich?
THIS IS THE 8TH PLANET FROM THE SUN AND IS MADE OF MOSTLY HYDROGREN, HELIUM AND METHANE GAS
What is Neptune?
v = HoD
Who is Edwin Powell Hubble?
What is (20)(20+1)/2=210)
This famous constant was discovered by Jacob Bernoulli while studying compound interest, but is associated with the first letter of the name of another famous mathematician.
What is e?
THIS TYPE OF TELESCOPE USES LENSES TO GATHER AND FOCUS LIGHT
What is refracting telescope?
This English mathematician created representations of functions as infinite sums of terms that are calculated from the values of the derivatives of those functions at single points.
Who is Brook Taylor?
The volume of a sphere of radius 1.
What is 4/3 pi?
THIS STAR WAS USED IN 1920 TO FIRST OBSERVE GRAVITATIONAL BLUESHIFT
What is Sirius?
PLUTO IS A MEMBER OF THIS ASTEROID BELT
What is Kuiper belt?
This 18th century mathematician named the square root of -1 with the symbol i, founded the study of graph theory, and made countless contributions to topology, calculus, combinatorics, and complex analysis. He also got a mathematical constant named after him…
Who is Leonard Euler?
The 7th prime number
What is 13?
This famous conjecture first proposed in 1637 and later solved in 1994 by Andrew wiles states that no three positive integers a,b, and c satisfy the equation a^n + b^n = c^n for any integer n greater than 2.
What is Fermat's Last Theorem?
THIS ROVER HAD CONTRIBUTED TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF MARS SURFACE FOR OVER TEN YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME INACTIVE LAST YEAR DUE TO A SAND STORM
What is Opportunity rover?
This famous ancient mathematician is credited with the creation of the formula that relates the lengths of the three sides of a right triangle.
Who is Pythagoras?
The number of faces on a icosahedron.
What is 20?