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Galactic Brain Buster Game

Galactic Brain Buster Game. Choose a category. You will be given a question. You must give the correct answer. Click to begin. Click here for Final Galactic Brain Buster Question. Choose how many points you want to risk. Galactic Wonderings. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star.

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Galactic Brain Buster Game

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  1. Galactic Brain Buster Game Choose a category. You will be given a question. You must give the correct answer. Click to begin.

  2. Click here for Final Galactic Brain Buster Question. Choose how many points you want to risk.

  3. Galactic Wonderings Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star Eye of the Beholder Galactic Proportions Galacticese 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 10 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 20 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 30 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 40 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points 50 Points

  4. Galactic Wonderings for 10 What kind of galaxies has a set of arms winding out from a bulge in the middle?

  5. Galactic Wonderings for 10 Answer: spiral galaxies M100, NGC 4321 Spiral Galaxy- HST http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/entire/pr1994002c/

  6. Galactic Wonderings for 20 What type of galaxy has a disk plus a bulge in the middle with a bar?

  7. Galactic Wonderings for 20 Answer: barred spiral galaxy

  8. Galactic Wonderings for 30 What kind of galaxy is all bulge, has an elliptical form, has no disk, and has stars but no gas?

  9. Galactic Wonderings for 30 Answer: an elliptical galaxy Elliptical Galaxy NGC 1132 - Hubble NGC 1132 - Chandra X-Ray Observatory/Hubble Space Telescope

  10. 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?

  11. Galactic Wonderings for 40 Answer: irregular galaxies

  12. Galactic Wonderings for 50 What is the name for colliding galaxies, which occurs because one galaxy's gravity disturbs another galaxy?

  13. Galactic Wonderings for 50 Answer: interacting galaxies

  14. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for 10 What is the name of these massive stars, which usually are surrounded by out-flowing gas clouds?

  15. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for 10 Answer: Wolf-Rayet stars

  16. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for 20 What type of a star has a discernable change in luminosity often accompanied by other physical changes?

  17. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for 20 Answer: Image: Distant Spiral Galaxy NGC 4603, Home to Variable Stars A variable star Want to learn more about variable stars? Go here- http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/variable_stars/

  18. 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?

  19. 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

  20. 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?

  21. 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

  22. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for 50 What type of neutron star emits quick and recurring pulses of radiation?

  23. Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star for 50 Answer: A pulsar Image: The Crab Nebula From the Ground (left) and Its Interior With Pulsar PRC96-22a ST SCL OPO May 30, 1996 J. Hester and P. Scowen (AZ State Univ) and NASA

  24. Eye of the Beholder for 10 Which astronomer first saw a nebula’s spiral shape in 1845?

  25. 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

  26. 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?

  27. 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

  28. 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?

  29. Eye of the Beholder for 30 Answer: Copernicus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Copernicus.jpg

  30. Eye of the Beholder for 40 Who was the Italian scientist who studied falling objects and discovered four moons orbiting Jupiter?

  31. 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

  32. 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?

  33. 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

  34. Galactic Proportions for 10 What is 149,598,000 kilometers in astronomical terms?

  35. 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

  36. Galactic Proportions for 20 What is the astronomical term for red shift, blue shift?

  37. Galactic Proportions for 20 Answer: The Doppler effect Image from NASA Learn more about the Doppler effect at http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/K-12/airplane/doppler.html

  38. Galactic Proportions for 30 What was Einstein’s most famous equation?

  39. Galactic Proportions for 30 Answer: E=mc2 To learn more about Albert Einstein go to http://chandra.harvard.edu/chronicle/0205/einstein/

  40. Galactic Proportions for 40 What is the name of this equation? Total livable Planets  x Probability of Evolution  =   Planets with evolved life

  41. Galactic Proportions for 40 Answer: Drake’s Equation Image from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Drake Learn more about Drake’s equation at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ztl8CG3Sys

  42. 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?

  43. Galactic Proportions for 50 Answer: Hubble’s Constant Image fromhttp://www.resonancepub.com/hubble.htm

  44. Galacticese for 10 What term is commonly used to describe how the universe began?

  45. 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

  46. 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?

  47. 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)

  48. Galacticese for 30 What is the term that refers to a surface around a black hole encompassing the region where nothing can escape?

  49. Galacticese for 30 Answer: The event horizon http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2001/03/image/a/format/web/

  50. Galacticese for 40 What is another name of the galaxy the Greeks called “galaxies kuklos?”

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