What did Marie Curie call the rays emitted by uranium compounds?
Answer
Becquerel rays
96213 Intermediate Trivia Questions
96213 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Which uranium compound was used in Becquerel's accidental dark-drawer experiment?
Answer
potassium uranyl sulfate
Which French institution received Becquerel's first 1896 reports on uranium rays?
Answer
French Academy of Sciences
What Lebanese dish is hummus topped with small meat cubes and roasted pine nuts?
Answer
Hummus bi lahmeh
What Lebanese stew combines okra with tomato sauce?
Answer
Bamieh bi-zeit
Which gamma-ray space telescope discovered the Milky Way's Fermi bubbles?
Answer
Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope
Which NASA space telescope helped reveal the Milky Way's central bar in infrared surveys?
Answer
Spitzer Space Telescope
What vast underdense region of space lies adjacent to the Local Group?
Answer
Local Void
What are the constants A and B used to describe local Milky Way rotation called?
Answer
Oort constants
What radio line first mapped the Milky Way's spiral structure after 1952?
Answer
21-centimeter line
What gas stream extends behind the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds?
Answer
Magellanic Stream
Which dense young star cluster lies near the Milky Way's Galactic Center?
Answer
Arches Cluster
Who used globular clusters to show the Sun is far from the Milky Way's center?
Answer
Harlow Shapley
Which Milky Way supernova remnant contains the Crab Pulsar?
Answer
Crab Nebula
Which dense gas region spans the center of the Milky Way?
Answer
Central Molecular Zone
What ancient merger remnant in the Milky Way is also called the Gaia Sausage?
Answer
Gaia-Enceladus
What long wave-shaped gas structure near the Sun was announced in 2020?
Answer
Radcliffe wave
What local cavity of hot gas contains the Sun?
Answer
Local Bubble
Which Milky Way X-ray source was the first widely accepted black hole?
Answer
Cygnus X-1
Which Russian cosmonaut became the first to fly aboard a Space Shuttle on STS-60?
Answer
Sergei Krikalev
Which company built the Space Shuttle orbiters in Palmdale, California?
Answer
Rockwell International
What Kennedy Space Center runway complex was built for shuttle landings?
Answer
Shuttle Landing Facility
Which ocean received the shuttle's solid rocket boosters after parachute splashdown?
Answer
Atlantic Ocean