| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | ASTRONOMY $1200: These gas vortices on the Sun can be Earth-sized or larger & last for months sunspots |
| #9072, aired 2024-04-02 | ASTRONOMY $5,000 (Daily Double): The "E" in NASA's T.E.S.S. satellite stands for these that it's actively looking for, whether they can support life or not exoplanets |
| #9007, aired 2024-01-02 | LET'S TALK ASTRONOMY $2000: This word for when the Moon is between half & full can be pronounced with either a hard or soft "G" sound gibbous |
| #8800, aired 2023-02-03 | A LITTLE ASTRONOMY $2000: Nothing from inside, not even light, can escape past this, the 2-word term for the boundary around a black hole an event horizon |
| #8433, aired 2021-06-30 | STAR-SPANGLED BANTER $2000: This "2001" scribe wrote, "Astronomy, as nothing else can do, teaches men humility" Clarke |
| #7359, aired 2016-09-15 | ASTRONOMY $1600: These extremely hot eruptions in the Sun's atmosphere can cause communications problems on Earth solar flares |
| #6325, aired 2012-03-02 | ASTRONOMY $1000: John Archibald Wheeler popularized this term for an object so dense that not even light can escape a black hole |
| #5992, aired 2010-10-05 | ASTRONOMY $1200: (Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a diagram of the Sun and Earth on the monitor.) On the sunward side of the Earth, these bands are compressed by solar winds; on the other side they can stretch farther the Van Allen belts |
| #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 |
| #5442, aired 2008-04-15 | ASTRONOMY $3,000 (Daily Double): This moon that orbits Uranus in 18 hrs. was named for a Shakespeare character who can circle the Earth in 40 min. Puck |
| #5342, aired 2007-11-27 | ASTRONOMY $2,000 (Daily Double): In mid-November, you can have a "roaring" good time watching this meteor shower the Leonids |
| #4111, aired 2002-06-17 | SPACED OUT $400: For a great view of Mars, astronomy.com suggests using a Wratten no. 25 filter in this appropriate color red |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | Astronomy.com $100: Astronomy.com reminds you when to look for these events in the sky, like the Perseid ones around Aug. 11 & 12 meteor showers |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | Astronomy.com $200: In the "Astro for Kids" section, click on images of your favorite planets; the one seen here symbolizes this planet Venus |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | Astronomy.com $300: Astroshopping? Check out the image stabilization type of these (opera glasses are a lower-tech type) binoculars |
| #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 Dalí |
| #3958, aired 2001-11-14 | Astronomy.com $500: Learn all about these objects, whose name comes from the Latin for "mist"; the Eagle one is see here a nebula |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | ASTRONOMY $200: Its perigee, the closest it can come to Earth, is 221,456 miles The moon |
| #3860, aired 2001-05-18 | ASTRONOMY $400: The Chandra Orbiting Telescope takes this kind of photo; hey, maybe we can see Pluto in its underwear! X-ray |
| #3453, aired 1999-09-15 | ASTRONOMY $100: All the stars you can see with the naked eye are part of this galaxy Milky Way |
| #3149, aired 1998-04-16 | ASTRONOMY $200: The Crab Nebula, first observed in 1054 A.D., can be found in this constellation, & that's no bull Taurus |
| #3037, aired 1997-11-11 | ASTRONOMY $400: Predicted as early as 1784, this body is so dense that light can't escape its gravitational pull Black hole |
| #2904, aired 1997-03-27 | ASTRONOMY $600: Tycho, one of these on the moon, can be seen without a telescope Crater |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | ASTRONOMY $200: These objects with comas & tails can be named for up to 3 independent co-discoverers comets |
| #2816, aired 1996-11-25 | ASTRONOMY $400: Of the 9 planets, only Mars & Venus can appear brighter in the sky than this largest one Jupiter |
| #2722, aired 1996-06-04 | ASTRONOMY $100: In 1796 Pierre Simon de Laplace suggested the existence of these objects from which light can't escape a black hole |
| #2383, aired 1995-01-04 | ASTRONOMY $100: One of these can be a hundred times more luminous than a regular nova a supernova |
| #1756, aired 1992-03-30 | ASTRONOMY $200: If it exists, it's denser than a neutron star, so dense even light can't escape from it black hole |
| #1423, aired 1990-11-07 | ASTRONOMY $200: As can be seen thru a telescope, the sizes of this red planet's polar ice caps change with the seasons Mars |
| #1410, aired 1990-10-19 | ASTRONOMY $800: In the Northern Hemisphere it can be September 22 or 23 the autumnal equinox |
| #902, aired 1988-07-05 | ASTRONOMY $5,000 (Daily Double): Among planets in our solar system whose size is known, these 2 are closest in diameter Venus & the Earth |
| #715, aired 1987-10-16 | ASTRONOMY $1000: Most distant object the human eye can see unaided, though with a little "strain", is this galaxy Andromeda |
| #656, aired 1987-06-15 | ASTRONOMY $800: Consisting of an umbra & a penumbra, these disturbances can cluster to become 200,000km across sunspots |
| #490, aired 1986-10-24 | ASTRONOMY $400: Of 6,000, 50,000, or 90,000, the approximate number of stars visible to the naked eye 6,000 |
| #468, aired 1986-09-24 | ASTRONOMY $200: They can be classified as blue giants or white dwarfs stars |
| #340, aired 1985-12-27 | ASTRONOMY $1000: A solar eclipse can only take place when the moon is in this phase new |
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