Radio Astronomy/PSC
This radio telescope in Costa Rica is no longer functioning.
What is Arecibo?
Who is Isaac Newton?
Luke Skywalker lives on this planet in Star Wars Episode IV.
What is Tattooine?
GBT
What is the Green Bank Telescope?
This Officer really likes cute creatures.
Who is Brynn Bortree?
The first pulsar signal detected was called this.
What is LGM (Little Green Men)?
This physicist, with a namesake observatory, was a pioneer in the field of Dark Matter, leading to sweeping changes in the field of cosmology.
Who is Vera C. Rubin?
This is the name of the AI supercomputer in 2001: A Space Odyssey.
What/Who(?) is HAL 9000?
LASER
What is Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation?
Who is RJ Dunlap?
In this year, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered the first pulsar.
What is 1967?
This physicist was working as a patent clerk when they published four groundbreaking papers.
Who is Albert Einstein?
The first episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, titled "The Man Trap," aired in this year.
What is 1966?
LIGO
What is the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory?
This Officer fell on their head as a child and got amnesia.
Who is Luke Royer?
This student started the Penn State PSC branch.
Who is Cecilia McGough?
These three scientists came up with the best model of the atom for their time (in order).
Who are Ernest Rutherford, Niels Bohr, and Erwin Schrödinger?
(Also accept: J.J. Thomson, Ernest Rutherford, and Niels Bohr)
The Fremen refer to the giant worm-like creatures in Dune as this.
What is Shai-Hulud?
NASA ADS
What is the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrophysics Data System?
This officer fractured their arm trying to balance on a soccer ball
Who is Abigail Raytsis?
Quasar is short for this.
Quasi-stellar radio source
This person has a lengthy resume: worked on the U.S. Minuteman ICBM; worked in the ground station for the Hubble Space Telescope, the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite; saved the astronauts in the Apollo Space Program; and was the mother of actor Jack Black.
Who is Judith Love Cohen?
This is the mass of Gargantua in Interstellar.
What is 100 million suns?
NANOGrav
What is the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves
This Officer made a sculpture out of Babybel Cheese wax every day in high school.
Who is Luke Royer