Astronomy Trivia Page - 5

Trivia Questions

The Chandra Orbiting Telescope takes this kind of photo; hey, maybe we can see Pluto in its underwear!

In 1986 astronomers found a massive one of these at the center of the Milky Way galaxy

In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun

In 1979 Voyager 1 discovered that this large body has rings, just like Saturn & Uranus

Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer

In 585 B.C. Thales of Miletus accurately predicted one of these astronomical events

In 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first known one of these heavenly objects & dubbed it Ceres

This totally darkened phase of the Moon occurs when the Moon is between the Sun & the Earth

In August 1609 he demonstrated his newly constructed telescope to the senate of Venice, who then doubled his salary

When "shadow bands" are seen on Earth, it means this is about to happen up in the heavens