#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: It's known as Earth's twin but it has surface temperatures over 800 degrees Fahrenheit Venus |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: There are about 6 trillion miles in one of these units of space distance a light-year |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1600: A cluster of young stars, this group of astronomical siblings includes Electra, Maia & Alcyone the Seven Sisters |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $2000: The Herschel, an infrared telescope then the largest sent into space, was launched in 2009 by this Paris-HQed NASA counterpart the European Space Agency |
#8814, aired 2023-02-23 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $8,600 (Daily Double): With perihelion on July 28, it will be seen again from Earth in 2061, when all of you are looking back on your youthful hopes Halley's Comet |
#8800, aired 2023-02-03 | A LITTLE ASTRONOMY $1600: Out at the edge of the solar system, the heliopause is where this stream of plasma from the sun meets interstellar space the solar wind |
#6, aired 2022-10-30 | OUT OF THIS WORLD $1500: The HST, this space telescope, was placed in orbit around Earth in 1990 & soon revolutionized astronomy the Hubble |
#7836, aired 2018-10-08 | ASTRONOMY $2000: Undetected until the 1990s, this belt is a zone of space past 30 A.U. & home to objects like dwarf planets & icy centaurs the Kuiper Belt |
#7359, aired 2016-09-15 | ASTRONOMY $1200: A 1990 photo of Earth taken by this space probe prompted Carl Sagan to call planet Earth a "pale blue dot" Voyager 1 |
#6929, aired 2014-10-30 | ASTRONOMY $400: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a photograph on the monitor.) Photographer Thierry Legault traveled to Oman to get a photo of a partial solar eclipse; an added bonus was capturing this craft in the image the International Space Station |
#5992, aired 2010-10-05 | ASTRONOMY $400: In 1996 this space telescope returned the first-ever images of Pluto's surface the Hubble |
#5691, aired 2009-05-11 | TECH TALK $1200: Astronomy using these, discovered in the 1890s, has to be done from space as these can't penetrate our atmosphere X-rays |
#5484, aired 2008-06-12 | SPACE SCIENCE $800: There are billions & billions of ways to know this "Contact" man was a professor of astronomy & space science at Cornell Carl Sagan |
#5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ASTRONOMY $1600: Fewer people on Earth get to see it than the aurora borealis, but it looks pretty cool from space aurora australis (the southern lights) |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: First seen in 1995, Hale-Bopp, a famous one of these, should be back in another 2-3,000 years a comet |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: In 2003 there will be 4 of these: 1 total solar, 1 annular & 2 total lunar eclipses |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $600: The Crab Nebula is the remnants of a "super" one of these, observed & recorded in 1054 a nova |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: This first American in space later became the fifth man on the moon Alan Shepard |
#4416, aired 2003-11-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1000: The ISS for short, it's considered the largest cooperative scientific project in history the International Space Station |
#4279, aired 2003-03-20 | EDUCATION $800: In 1971 he became professor of astronomy & space sciences at Cornell, a post he retained until his death in 1996 (Carl) Sagan |
#3958, aired 2001-11-14 | Astronomy.com $400: The "Fun Facts" told us how this Spanish surrealist artist thought he got messages from outer space thru his mustache DalĂ |
#3944, aired 2001-10-25 | AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLARS $800: He wasn't focused properly when he studied law at Oxford; astronomy was his calling & a space telescope was named for him (Edwin) Hubble |
#3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ASTRONOMY $300: In an emergency repair mission scheduled for October 1999 NASA will replace all of the gyros in this telescope Hubble Space Telescope |
#3412, aired 1999-06-08 | SPACE $500: Your "flare" for astronomy will help you name this solar feature that lasts longer than a solar flare solar prominence |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $100: Though it's currently Polaris, Vega will become this directional star around 14,000 A.D. the North Star (or the Pole Star) |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: In 1996 one of these minor planets the size of Pikes Peak was named for newsman Walter Cronkite an asteroid |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: America's first weather satellite, its name stood for Television & Infrared Observation Satellite TIROS |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: Corvus, a small constellation south of Virgo, is said to represent this black bird the crow |
#2977, aired 1997-07-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: In 1973 Alan Bean spent nearly 2 months aboard this U.S. space station Skylab |
#2969, aired 1997-06-26 | ASTRONOMY $600: Oh my darling! It was announced in December 1996 that this space probe may have found ice on the moon Clementine |
#2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: From Earth, this planet's 100,000 or so ringlets appear as just 3 broad rings Saturn |
#2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: British scientists announced that they had found organic material in a second meteorite from this planet Mars |
#2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $600: In 1996 the sun went an exceptional 36 days without a visible one of these dark patches Sunspots |
#2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: Scientists conjecture that this gas giant's moon Europa may sustain an icy ocean Jupiter |
#2870, aired 1997-02-07 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1000: In April 1997 one of these named Hale-Bopp will be among the brightest objects in the night sky Comet |
#2785, aired 1996-10-11 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: In January 1996 special ceremonies marked the 10-year anniversary of the explosion of this space shuttle the Challenger |
#2785, aired 1996-10-11 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: Astronomers say they've found 2 new planets, one in the Big Dipper & one in this "chaste" constellation Virgo |
#2785, aired 1996-10-11 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $600: Latin term for the moon's "seas"; the largest is about 750 miles wide mare(s or maria) |
#2785, aired 1996-10-11 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: The name of these Russian spacecraft means "union" Soyuz |
#2785, aired 1996-10-11 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1000: In 1992, aboard the Endeavour, she became the 1st African-American woman in space Mae Jemison |
#2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $100: In 1850 astronomer William Bond discovered this planet's third ring Saturn |
#2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: During its 1986 visit, a 20-million-pound chunk of this comet was blown away Halley's comet |
#2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: It was America's first, & so far only, space station Skylab |
#2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: Laika, the first canine cosmonaut, flew aboard the 2nd of these Russian satellites in 1957 Sputnik |
#2415, aired 1995-02-17 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: In a national contest, students chose the name of this space shuttle that replaced the Challenger Endeavour |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: As one of these moves away from the sun, it loses its tail comet |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: It's believed that the majority of meteorites are fragments of these minor planets asteroids |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $600: It's the Aurora Borealis' counterpart in the Southern Hemisphere Aurora Australis |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: Nereid, this outer planet's third-largest moon, was discovered in 1949 Neptune |
#2373, aired 1994-12-21 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1000: The 1st probe to leave the solar system, No. 10 in this series, marked 20 years in space in 1992 Pioneer |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $100: The largest of these on the moon appear to be of meteoric origin, the smallest ones of volcanic origin craters |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: In 1994 this country launched its 1st domestically designed & built rocket from Tanegashima Is. Japan |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: To the disappointment of many "Star Trek" fans, this first shuttle never went into space Enterprise |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: This orbiting telescope is controlled by radio from the Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland the Hubble |
#2364, aired 1994-12-08 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: Icarus & Apollo, 2 of these, have diameters of about 1100 yards asteroids |
#2243, aired 1994-05-11 | ASTRONOMY $600: In August 1993 the Observer probe sent to study this planet was lost in space Mars |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $100: Most of the meteors in a meteor shower are debris left behind by one of these tailed bodies a comet |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: In 1966 Venera 3 became the first space probe to reach another planet when it crash-landed here Venus |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: Deimos, the outermost moon of this planet has an average diameter of only 7.8 miles Mars |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: Also called the Dog Star, it's the brightest star in the night sky Sirius |
#2207, aired 1994-03-22 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: In 1992 cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned home after nearly a year aboard this space station Mir |
#2023, aired 1993-05-26 | ASTRONOMY $800: This space research institution run by Caltech is abbreviated JPL the Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
#1939, aired 1993-01-28 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $100: The center of this, our home galaxy, is near the constellation Sagittarius the Milky Way |
#1939, aired 1993-01-28 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: In 1991 England's 1st astronaut, Helen Sharman, took off for space aboard one of this country's Soyuz capsules the Soviet Union |
#1939, aired 1993-01-28 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $300: The first Surveyor probe was sent to this body in 1966 in preparation for the manned landing the Moon |
#1939, aired 1993-01-28 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: This type of spacecraft is also known as the Space Transportation System the Shuttle |
#1939, aired 1993-01-28 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $500: With its brilliant coloring, Io has been called the most spectacular of this planet's Galilean moons Jupiter |
#1826, aired 1992-07-06 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $200: America's first man-in-space program, or the planet closest to the Sun Mercury |
#1826, aired 1992-07-06 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $400: They were once thought of as "hairy stars" & were regarded as evil comets |
#1826, aired 1992-07-06 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $600: In April 1990 the Hubble Telescope was put into orbit by the crew of this space shuttle Discovery |
#1826, aired 1992-07-06 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $800: It's long been suggested that Pluto is actually an escaped satellite of this planet Neptune |
#1826, aired 1992-07-06 | ASTRONOMY & SPACE $1000: This largest moon of Saturn is the only satellite known to have a substantial atmosphere Titan |
#1702, aired 1992-01-14 | CAPTAIN COOK $1,000 (Daily Double): The new U.S. space shuttle is named after this ship Cook took on an astronomy mission in 1768 the Endeavour |
#1666, aired 1991-11-25 | ASTRONOMY $1000: In 1973 this new comet became the 1st to be studied from space when photographed by Skylab Kohoutek |
#1666, aired 1991-11-25 | ASTRONOMY $3,000 (Daily Double): The steady flow of charged particles from the sun's corona into space is called this the solar wind |
#1161, aired 1989-09-25 | COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES $1000: "Cosmos" author Carl Sagan is a professor of astronomy & space sciences at this eastern university Cornell |
#1121, aired 1989-06-19 | ASTRONOMY $400: It's defined as all space & everything contained in it cosmos or universe |
#168, aired 1985-05-01 | ASTRONOMY $200: The only space satellite whose features could be observed prior to the invention of the telescope the Moon |