Our Solar System
This is the number of planets in our solar system.
What is eight?
This American astronaut was the first person to set foot on the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
According to most scientists, this is the age of our universe.
What is 13.8 billion?
Launched into low earth orbit in 1990, this space telescope is well known for both its scientific research and its beautiful images of nebulas and galaxies.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
A part of the Ursa Major constellation, this constellation is commonly seen to resemble a ladle.
What is the Big Dipper?
This planet is known for its iconic rings of dust and ice.
What is Saturn?
This German physicist developed the theory of relativity as well as the mass-energy equivalence formula.
Who was Albert Einstein?
A byproduct of stars, it is said to be the fastest thing to exist in the universe.
What is light?
This Russian probe was the first man made satellite to enter orbit around the earth.
What is Sputnik?
This comet passes by Earth every 75 years, and is the only comet that can appear twice in a human lifespan.
What is Halley's Comet?
This crimson colored storm has been raging for over 300 years, and is 1.3 times wider than earth.
What is the Great Red Spot?
Often referred to as the "father of modern science", this Italian astronomer was charged with heresy for promoting his idea of heliocentrism.
Who was Galileo Galilei?
Wrapped in a gravitational field so strong not even light can escape, there is thought to be one of these at the center of every galaxy.
What is a black hole?
Launched in 1977, this spacraft is the furthest man-made object from Earth at a distance of 22.8 billion kilometers
What is Voyager 1?
This idea is the apparent contradiction between the lack of evidence for intelligent extraterrestrial life and it's seemingly high estimated probability.
What is Fermi's Paradox?
This moon is the largest one in our solar system, and is also the only moon to have its own magnetic field.
What is Ganymede?
This English physicist was the first to offer a unifying theory for general relativity and quantum mechanics. He also predicted that black holes can emit a type of black body radiation.
Who was Steven Hawking?
This galaxy cluster is roughly 3 megaparsecs in diameter and is home to the Milky Way, Andromeda, and Triangulum Galaxies, along with over 30 other smaller galaxies.
What is The Local Group?
Weighing in at just 23 pounds, this rover was the first wheeled vehicle to move across the surface of Mars. It landed on the Red Planet in 1997.
What is Sojourner?
This photograph, taken by Voyager 1, shows the planet Earth at a distance of almost 6 billion kilometers.
What is The Pale Blue Dot?
This triple star system is the closest to our own, located just over 4 light years from earth.
What is Alpha Centauri?
This Russian Cosmonaut was the first woman to go into space, and spent 71 hours in space on her first flight.
Who is Valentina Tereshkova?
This nebula not only holds the record for the coldest place in the universe at 1 degree Kelvin; it is also the only known natural object to have a temperature lower than that of cosmic background raditation.
What is the Boomerang Nebula? (or Bow Tie Nebula)
Constructed in 2004, this is the largest optical reflecting telescope in the world by effective aperture.
What is the Large Binocular Telescope?
Written and narrated by famous astronomer Carl Sagan, this award winning television documentary was the most watched series in American television history until 1990.
What is Cosmos: A Personal Voyage?