What is the name of the first exoplanet discovered by the TESS mission?
Answer
Pi Mensae c
34719 Intermediate Trivia Questions
34719 public questions at this depth. How many can you answer?
Who first isolated radium chloride?
Answer
Marie Curie
Which device did Pierre and Jacques Curie invent to measure small electric charges?
Answer
Piezoelectric electrometer
What is the half-life of uranium-238?
Answer
4.468 billion years
Who discovered gamma radiation in 1900?
Answer
Paul Villard
Who identified two distinct types of radioactivity, alpha and beta?
Answer
Ernest Rutherford
What property did Becquerel originally believe caused uranium to emit rays?
Answer
Phosphorescence
Which element was the first to be discovered by the Curies?
Answer
Polonium
From what disease did Marie Curie die in 1934?
Answer
Aplastic anemia
What is the most penetrating type of ionizing radiation?
Answer
Gamma radiation
Which radiation consists of high-speed electrons?
Answer
Beta radiation
What type of star did Hubble use to measure the expansion rate of the universe?
Answer
Cepheid variables
Which instrument was primarily used for the Hubble Deep Field observations?
Answer
Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2
Which Hubble instrument replaced the COSTAR system in 2009?
Answer
Cosmic Origins Spectrograph
How long did the Hubble Ultra Deep Field exposure take?
Answer
1 million seconds
What type of celestial object did Hubble observe to discover cosmic acceleration?
Answer
Type Ia supernovae
Which Hubble instrument made the first exoplanet atmosphere detection in 2001?
Answer
Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph
Which instrument replaced the Faint Object Camera on Hubble?
Answer
Advanced Camera for Surveys
What is the pointing accuracy of Hubble in arcseconds?
Answer
0.007 arcseconds
What is the power consumption of Hubble in watts?
Answer
2,800 watts
What was Hubble's major optical flaw discovered after launch?
Answer
Spherical aberration
What is the name of the most distant star observed by JWST?
Answer
Earendel
Which ring galaxy was imaged by JWST in 2022?
Answer
Cartwheel Galaxy
Which star-forming region in the Eagle Nebula was imaged by JWST?
Answer
Pillars of Creation
After which NASA administrator was JWST named?
Answer
James E. Webb
How far from Earth is the L2 point where JWST orbits?
Answer
1.5 million kilometers
On what date were JWST's first full-color images publicly released?
Answer
July 12, 2022
What is the most massive young star cluster known in the Milky Way?
Answer
Westerlund 1
What is the name of the phenomenon of cool gas clouds falling onto the Milky Way at high speeds?
Answer
High-velocity clouds
What is the name of the faint stream of stars from a disrupted dwarf galaxy in the Milky Way's halo?
Answer
Sagittarius Stream
Which astronomer first mapped the shape of the Milky Way in the 18th century?
Answer
William Herschel
Which dwarf galaxy is currently merging with the Milky Way?
Answer
Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy
What is the largest globular cluster in the Milky Way?
Answer
Omega Centauri