Exoplanets
Discovered in 1995, exoplanet 51 Pegasi B, which orbits a sunlike star and
discovered by the transit method, was discovered by these two astronomers.
"Dirty Snowballs"
What are comets?
individual that proved the most abundant element in the universe is Hydrogen.
Who is Cecilia Payne?
This telescope captures EMS data in the highest energy and frequency ranges.
What is a Gamma Ray Telescope?
What are irregular galaxies?
This exoplanet system's name derives from a group of beer brewers.
What is the Trappist-1 system?
Region of space which produces the afore mentioned "Dirty Snowballs",
that have orbital periods of 200 years or less.
What is the Kuiper Belt region?
At the age of 11, this young girl named a newly discovered planet. That
planet, discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, is now known as Pluto.
Who is Ventia Burney Phair?
will improve this scientific data collecting ability of a telescope.
What is angular resolution?
Located 2.5 million light years from Earth (and on a collision course with the Milky
Way Galaxy), this galaxy was originally believed to be a nebula cloud.
What is the Andromeda Galaxy?
Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail used this type of telescope to study Pulsar Stars.
Lo-and-behold, they also discovered the first exoplanet.
What is a radio telescope?
Longer period comets (periods greater than 200 years) come from this distant
region of the solar system.
What is the Oort Cloud?
While William Herschel often receives credit for this planet's discovery, he relied
heavily on the work of his sister, Caroline, to determine it was indeed a planet and
not a comet.
What is Uranus?
Radio waves from outer space were first detected by this Bell Laboratory engineer.
Who is Carl Jansky?
One of these orbits around the star 51 Pegasi.
What is a Gas Giant Exoplanet?
This space telescope refined exoplanet searches so well, that the
known number of exoplanets grew substantially after it was put into
orbit.
What is the Kepler Space Telescope?
Discovered in January 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi, this object was mistakenly
identified as a planet.
What is Ceres?
His Three Laws of Planetary motion forever changed the science of astronomy,
however, he would not have had such great success if not for this man's
positional data of the planets.
Who was Tycho Brahe?
determine the "chemical fingerprints" of elements.
What is spectroscopy?
Spiral Arm Galaxies have huge "central bulges" of light, which is caused by this
phenomena at there center.
What are black holes or singularities?
The statistical equation that represents the odds of other intelligent life
forms in the universe, was derived by this individual.
Who is Frank Drake?
All gas giants have a ring system, with each ring system having various
naming systems to identify the rings. This planet's rings are names in
honor of those that have contributed to the scientific discoveries of the planet.
What is Neptune?
Winning the Nobel Prize in Physics, this individual and her team produced an image
of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way Galaxy. She is now renowned at UCLA
and Keck Observatory.
Who is Dr. Andrea Ghez?
The speed of light is now known to be 299,792 km/s. However, this scientist
first measured the finite speed of light to be 225,000 km/s.
Who is Ole Roemer?
Used by the Empire, this object appears to be a small moon, much like the little
moon Mimas.
What is the Death Star?