Planetary Science
What did our solar system form from?
A solar nebula (accept a disk/cloud of gas and dust)
According to the most recent models, what is the estimated age of our universe?
13.8 Billion years old
What is the closest star to our solar system (not the sun!)
Proxima Centauri (Accept Alpha Centauri)
Name two Space Telescopes
Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope
Richard Treffers Telescope
Name two ways we can detect exoplanets
Accept transit, radial velocity, gravitational lensing, eclipse timing variations, direct imaging (sure)
What is the name of the supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way
Sagittarius A*
Where do stars typically form in a galaxy
Along the spiral arms
What shape makes up the mirror panels of the JWST?
Hexagon
Name one UAS president before Star and Mahum
Rav or Fira
Name Jupiter's 4 Galilean Moons
Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto
What is the name given to the energy emitted by black holes leading to their theoretical evaporation?
Hawking Radiation
What are the two axes on the Hertzsprung-Russel diagram?
(Surface) Temperature and Luminosity
What are the two main types of optical telescopes?
Refractors and Reflectors
When was UAS founded
2015
What was the first exoplanet discovered orbiting a sun-like star
51 Pegasi b
What is one piece of evidence that the universe is still expanding?
Redshift of distant galaxies, the existence of the CMB
Core collapse supernovae occur because the star's core started making what element?
Iron
What piece of technology was used to detect gravitational waves
LIGO (accept Laser Interferometer)
What is the name of the UAS mascot
Quadrupole
In what year did we make the first accurate estimate of Earth's age using isotopes? (+300 points for naming the scientist)
1956 (accept 1950s)
Clair Cameron Patterson
Name the 3 components of our universe and their accepted percentages
68-70% Dark Energy
25-27% Dark Matter
5% Normal (Visible) Matter
Name something that causes Gamma Ray Bursts
Merger between neutron stars, merger between neutron star and black hole, collapse of a massive star into a black hole
What is the term for the exact point in space where JWST is located
Earth's second Lagrange point (L2)
“Boba is ____” is written on an infamous sticker on our Newtonian Reflector
soup