Recent Astronomy Questions

• How often does a blood moon occur?

  3 hr 27 min ago - A blood moon occurs approximately once every 2 years. ChaCha on!

• What is a super giant?

  3 hr 29 min ago - A fictional Japanese superhero featured in a successful serie...

• What do the sun, terrstrial planets, and jovian planets have in common?

  3 hr 30 min ago - We have them all in our solar system.

• How hot are solar flares?

  3 hr 31 min ago - Solar Flares are very hot! A solar flare is a sudden brighten...

• Why does earth spin?

  3 hr 36 min ago - Earth spins because of the way it was formed. Our solar syste...

• When will the Mars rover reach mars?

  3 hr 36 min ago - It will take 8 and 1/2 months for the Mars Rover to reach Mar...

• How long does the light from the sun take to reach earth?

  3 hr 38 min ago - Sunlight takes just over 8 minutes to reach the Earth. On ave...

• What is a neap tide?

  3 hr 41 min ago - A neap tide is a tide of minimum range occurring at the first...

• Is the earth closer to the sun during the winter?

  3 hr 43 min ago - Yes! During the winter the earth's orbit is closer to the sun...

• Can you exit a blackhole?

  3 hr 45 min ago - The idea of a black hole - an object so massive that nothing ...

• What is retrograde motion?

  3 hr 47 min ago - Over the course of a single night, a planet will move from Ea...

• Does the earth spin clock wise or counter clock wise?

  3 hr 48 min ago - If you are looking down from the North Pole it spins counterc...

• Why is mars red?

  3 hr 48 min ago - Its red color has to do with the color of its soil. Its surfa...

• Did everyone on apollo 13 survive?

  3 hr 49 min ago - Yes. Everyone on Apollo 13 survived. Apollo 13 ended with a s...

• Where is rise against from?

  3 hr 49 min ago - Rise Against is from Chicago. The band was founded in late 19...

• What is it called when you can't see the moon? What is it called?

  3 hr 50 min ago - When there is a new Moon, you can't see it. When there is a f...

• What planet is between earth and the sun?

  3 hr 51 min ago - Mercury and Venus lie between Earth and the Sun. ChaCha!!!!

• What planet is the volcano, olympus mons on?

  3 hr 52 min ago - The volcano Olympus Mons is about three times the height of M...

• Which planet has a moon named Triton?

  3 hr 52 min ago - Triton is the largest moon of Neptune with a diameter of 1,68...

• Does mars have seasons?

  3 hr 55 min ago - Yes, Mars does have seasons characterized by variations in pl...

• What was the first telescope put out in space?

  3 hr 56 min ago - The Hubble Space Telescope was placed in orbit on April 1990 ...

• Where are most stars found in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?

  3 hr 58 min ago - Most of the stars occupy the region in the diagram along the ...

• What is the tempature for mars?

  3 hr 59 min ago - The daytime SURFACE temperature on Mars is about 80 F during ...

• What is the largest solar system?

  4 hr 1 min ago - The largest galaxies that we know of are giant elliptical gal...

• How cold is it in space?

  4 hr 3 min ago - It varies, interstellar gas clouds are in the millions (hot) ...

• Did the Apollo 18 mission find aliens?

  4 hr 6 min ago - The sci-fi movie Apollo 18 is based on the imagination that a...

• What are the two fixed points on the major axis of an ellipse called?

  4 hr 6 min ago - Two fixed points on the major axis of an ellipse is called it...

• What does the milky way look like?

  4 hr 8 min ago - The Milky Way looks like a dark swirl of stars. It is a beaut...

• How far across is the milky way galaxy?

  4 hr 9 min ago - The galaxy is about 90,000 light-years across. The Sun is rev...

• What scientists believed in the sun centered theory?

  4 hr 9 min ago - Heliocentrism, the belief that the sun is the center of the s...

• What is the path of a planet around the sun called?

  4 hr 9 min ago - The path that each planet takes around the sun is an oval sha...

• How do we know the composition of stars?

  4 hr 10 min ago - Astronomers study the spectrum of the Sun to determine it's c...

• How many miles an hour do space probes travel?

  4 hr 10 min ago - Space probes that have undergone gravity assist maneuvers to ...

• What is the shape of the earths orbit?

  4 hr 11 min ago - The earth has an elliptical orbit, and is closer to the sun d...

• Who is galileo?

  4 hr 12 min ago - Galileo Galilei was born in 1564 at Pisa. Galileo began his s...

• Where is the asteroid belt?

  4 hr 13 min ago - The asteroid belt is the region of the Solar System located b...

• How fast does the international space station go?

  4 hr 13 min ago - The ISS travels at an average speed of 27,700 km (17,210 stat...

• What gas is the main fuel on the sun?

  4 hr 15 min ago - The sun runs on hydrogen, which is what it is made of - it is...

• What is the Big Bang theory?

  4 hr 15 min ago - The Big Bang Theory is an American sitcom which premiered on ...

• Who was the first dog in space?

  4 hr 15 min ago - The dog Laika, the first living creature to orbit the Earth l...

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