Planetary Science
This is the largest planet in our Solar System.
What is Jupiter
CMB stands for ________.
What is Cosmic Microwave Background?
The "Big Dipper" is part of this constellation.
What is Ursa Major?
This telescope component collects and focuses light in a reflecting telescope.
What is the primary mirror?
The academic advisor for the Astronomy Department.
Who is Brad Perl?
According to Kepler's third law, for planets orbiting the same star, the square of this quantity is proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis.
What is the orbital period?
The two main types of galaxies.
What are spiral and elliptical?
(100 points per correct answer)
The two types of star clusters.
What is open and globular?
(100 points per correct answer)
The two main types of optical telescopes.
What are Reflectors and Refractors?
(100 points per correct answer)
This Berkeley professor was a member of both teams whose discovery of the accelerating expansion of the Universe led to the 2011 Nobel Prize in Physics for the teams' leaders.
Who is Alex Filippenko?
This boundary around a star is the approximate distance at which water ice can condense during planet formation.
What is the snow line (frost line)?
A Universe with total density parameter Ω =1 has this spatial geometry.
What is flat?
The competition between inward gravity and an outward pressure gradient that keeps a normal star stable is called this.
What is hydrostatic equilibrium?
JWST sees this wavelength of light.
What is infrared?
(will accept "What is visible red to mid-infrared?")
This entirely robotic 0.76-meter telescope at Lick Observatory has discovered more than 1,000 relatively nearby supernovae and can be used remotely by Berkeley researchers.
What is the Katzman Automatic Imaging Telescope (KAIT)?
The names of Jupiter's four Galilean moons.
What is Callisto, Europa, Ganymede, Io?
(100 points per correct name)
The first image of a black hole was taken at this time.
What is April 10, 2019?
(will accept "What is 2019?")
Name the five phases of stellar evolution that our own sun has followed/will follow throughout its lifetime.
What is protostar -> main sequence -> red giant -> planetary nebula -> white dwarf?
The diameter of the combined primary/tertiary mirror at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.
What is 8.4 meters?
You have to take ______ (number of courses) courses in the Astronomy department to graduate with an Astrophysics degree.
What is 2 theory, 1 lab?
(will accept "What is 3?")
Name two ways that exoplanets can be detected.
What is transit, radial velocity, gravitational microlensing, direct imaging, astrometry?
Cosmologists use this redshifted spectral line of neutral hydrogen to probe the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn.
What is the 21-centimeter line?
List the spectral types of main sequence stars in order from hottest to coolest.
What is OBAFGKM?
Berkeley's HERA consists of hundreds of radio dishes in this country, where it searches for signals from Cosmic Dawn.
What is South Africa?
What year was the original Campbell Hall first completed?
(Everyone submits a guess, the closest guess receives the points)
What is 1959?
(closest guess receives the points)