| What is the name of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “spaceship”? | The ship of the imagination |
| What is responsible for creating wind and keeping everything in the solar system in its clutches? | The sun |
| What lies between Mars and Jupiter? | The asteroid Belt |
| How big is the centuries old hurricane on Jupiter? | 3 times the size of Earth |
| What had to be invented before we could discover Saturn and Neptune? | After telescopes were invented |
| What is the name of the spacecraft that has traveled the farthest away from Earth? | Voyager 1 |
| What is the Oort Cloud? | A bunch of gravitational bound comets |
| How far from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy do we live? | 30,000 light years |
| What is the “address” of Earth in the cosmos? | Earth, Solar System, Milky Way Galaxy, Local Group, Virgo SuperCluster, Observable Univesre |
| Why do we not know yet if we live in a “multiverse” ? | The deeper out we are able to see the smaller we are made out to be |
| Who wrote the banned book that Giordano Bruno read that gave him the idea that the Universe was infinite? | Lucretius |
| How long was Bruno jailed and tortured? | 8 years |
| What happened to Bruno after he refused to change his mind about his beliefs of an infinite Universe? | He burned to death |
| Who was able to prove Bruno right 10 years after his death? | Galileo |
| How many years does one month symbolize on the “cosmic calendar” ? | 1 billion years |
| What date on the “cosmic calendar” did the Milky Way Galaxy appear? | March 14 |
| What date on the “cosmic calendar” was our Sun born? | August 31 |
| What day and time did human ancestors first evolve on the “cosmic calendar” represent? | December 31 at 11:00pm |
| What does the last 14 seconds on the “cosmic calendar” represent? | All of recorded human history |
| How many seconds ago on the “cosmic calendar” did the two halves of the world find each other? | 2 seconds ago |
Chemistry 1 Honors A Spacetime Odyssey
April 20, 2020