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Galactic Brain Buster
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Galactic
Wonderings
Twinkle,
Twinkle
Little Star
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Eye of the
Beholder
Galactic
Proportions
Galacticese
Galactic Wonderings
for 10
What kind of galaxies has a set of
arms winding out from a bulge in the
middle?
Galactic Wonderings
for 10
Answer:
spiral galaxies
M100, NGC 4321 Spiral Galaxy- HST
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr1994002c/
Galactic Wonderings
for 20
What type of galaxy has a
disk plus a bulge in the
middle with a bar?
Galactic Wonderings for 20
Answer:
barred spiral galaxy
Galactic Wonderings
for 30
What kind of galaxy is all
bulge, has an elliptical
form, has no disk, and has
stars but no gas?
Galactic Wonderings
for 30
Answer:
an elliptical
galaxy
Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132 - Hubble
NGC 1132 - Chandra X-Ray Observatory/Hubble Space Telescope
Galactic Wonderings
for 40
What type of galaxies have shapes
that don’t fit into the Hubble
classification for galaxies because
they are neither spiral or elliptical
in shape?
Galactic Wonderings
for 40
Answer:
irregular galaxies
Galactic Wonderings
for 50
What is the name for colliding
galaxies, which occurs because
one galaxy's gravity disturbs
another galaxy?
Galactic
Wonderings
for 50
Answer:
interacting
galaxies
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 10
What is the name of these massive
stars, which usually are
surrounded by out-flowing gas
clouds?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little
Star for 10
Answer:
Wolf-Rayet stars
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 20
What type of a star has a
discernable change in luminosity
often accompanied by other
physical changes?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 20
Image: Distant Spiral Galaxy NGC 4603, Home to Variable Stars
Answer:
A
variable
star
Want to learn more about variable stars? Go herehttp://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/variable_stars/
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 30
What type of star has the mass of our
Sun and the radius of the Earth but it
doesn’t emit enough light or other
radiation to be easily detected?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 30
Answer:
A white dwarf star
Credit for Hubble telescope photos: NASA
and H. Richer (University of British Columbia
For more information about white dwarf stars
See http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/dwarfs.html
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 40
What is the rare astronomical event
involving the explosion of the majority of the
material in a star, which results in an
extremely bright, short-lived object that
gives off vast quantities of energy?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 40
Answer:
A supernova
"After" and "Before" pictures of Supernova 1987A
Learn more about this supernovae photo at
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/supernovae.html
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 50
What type of neutron star emits
quick and recurring pulses of
radiation?
Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
for 50
Image: The Crab Nebula From the Ground (left) and Its Interior With Pulsar
Answer:
A pulsar
PRC96-22a ST SCL OPO May 30, 1996
J. Hester and P. Scowen (AZ State Univ) and NASA
Eye of the Beholder
for 10
Which astronomer first saw a
nebula’s spiral shape in
1845?
Eye of the Beholder
for 10
Answer:
William Parsons
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parsons,_3rd_Earl_of_Rosse
For more information about this astronomer see
http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/piercing_the_sky
Eye of the Beholder
for 20
Who saw the vast universe beyond the
Milky Way and then found the first
evidences that the universe began with
a Big Bang?
Eye of the Beholder
for 20
Answer:
Edwin Hubble
http://www.edwinhubble.com/hubble_bio_001.htm
Want to learn more about Edwin Hubble? See this webpage:
http://hubblesite.org/the_telescope/hubble_essentials/edwin_hubble.php
Eye of the Beholder
for 30
Who was the Polish astronomer and
mathematician who advocated that the
Earth turned daily about its axis and
yearly around our stationary Sun?
Eye of the Beholder
for 30
Answer:
Copernicus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copernicus.jpg
Eye of the Beholder
for 40
Who was the Italian scientist who
studied falling objects and
discovered four moons orbiting
Jupiter?
Eye of the Beholder
for 40
Answer:
Galileo
Portrait of Galileo Galileo by Giusto Sustermans
Wikipedia commons
Want to learn more about Galileo? See this website:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/galileo/life.html
Eye of the Beholder
for 50
What was the name of the theorist who
combined general relativity with
quantum theory to predict that black
holes should give off radiation and
dissipate?
Eye of the Beholder
for 50
Answer:
Stephen Hawking
NASA StarChild image of Stephen Hawking, 1999
Learn more about Stephen Hawking at
http://www.answers.com/topic/stephen-hawking
Galactic Proportions
for 10
What is 149,598,000
kilometers in astronomical
terms?
Galactic Proportions
for 10
Answer:
An
astronomical unit or
AU
Learn more about AU at the Wise Geek website:
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-astronomical-unit-au.htm
Galactic Proportions
for 20
What is the astronomical
term for red shift, blue
shift?
Galactic Proportions
for 20
Answer:
The
Doppler effect
Image from NASA
Learn more about the Doppler effect at
http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K12/airplane/doppler.html
Galactic Proportions
for 30
What was Einstein’s most
famous equation?
Galactic Proportions
for 30
Answer:
2
E=mc
To learn more about Albert Einstein go to
http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0205/einstein/
Galactic Proportions
for 40
What is the name of this
equation?
Total livable Planets x Probability of
Evolution = Planets with evolved life
Galactic Proportions
for 40
Answer:
150px-Frank_Drake_-_edit.jpg
Image from
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake
Learn more about Drake’s equation at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztl8CG3Sys
Drake’s
Equation
Galactic Proportions
for 50
What is the ratio that expresses the rate
of apparent expansion of the universe, equal to
the velocity at which a typical galaxy is
receding from Earth and is divided by its
distance from Earth?
Galactic Proportions
for 50
Answer:
Hubble’s
Constant
Image from http://www.resonancepub.com/hubble.htm
Galacticese for 10
What term is commonly used to
describe how the universe
began?
Galacticese for 10
Answer:
The Big Bang
Credit: NASA/WMAP Science Team
Learn more about the Big Bang at
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971108a.html
Galacticese for 20
What is the non-luminous
matter in the universe, that
can’t be clearly detected by
observing any form of
electromagnetic radiation?
Galacticese for 20
Answer:
dark matter
Cosmic Evolution Survey - Dark Matter
So what is this picture? Go to this weblink to find out
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2007/01/text/
Credit: NASA, ESA, and R. Massey (California Institute of Technology)
Galacticese for 30
What is the term that refers to
a surface around a black hole
encompassing the region where
nothing can escape?
Galacticese for 30
Answer:
The event horizon
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/03/image/a/format/web/
Galacticese for 40
What is another name of
the galaxy the Greeks
called “galaxies kuklos?”
Galacticese for 40
Answer:
The Milky Way
Picture from
http://nasa-apod.blogspot.com/
Galacticese for 50
Latin for white, what is the
word that means how much
light a surface will reflect?
Galacticese for 50
Answer:
albedo
Mean annual surface albedo values. (Source: NASA-ISCCP)
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To Reveal the Question.
Which two men are
credited for the
invention of the
telescope?
Hans Lippershey
and
Zacharias Janssen
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Resources Page
For More Information…
Universe Down to Earth: Google Book Search
http://books.google.com/books?id=PSkixRi6lYC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=astronomical+jargon&source=bl&ots=fSlL2l1Wdi&sig=DmD3w9L1r
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Cornell Galaxy Classification
http://www.astro.cornell.edu/academics/courses/astro201/galaxies/types.htm
Answers.com - Galaxy Defined
http://www.answers.com/topic/galaxy
Hubble Websites
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/
http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/
NASA Websites
http://isccp.giss.nasa.gov/
http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/ask_astro/answers/971108a.html
YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/
wiseGeek
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-an-astronomical-unit-au.htm