This week’s cosmic quiz question was submitted by Daniel Wallace, who asked, “How do astronomers figure out the size of planets orbiting other stars (and even what their atmosphere is made of)?”
This week 6-year-old Kambreigh Schooley asked us why she can sometimes see the moon during the daytime…What a great question!
To answer this question you need to first remember that one half of the moon is always illuminated by the Sun.
Joseph Amundsen’s recent Cosmic Quiz Question asks why the flags placed on the moon by the Apollo astronauts appear to be flapping in the wind.
This week’s Cosmic Quiz Question was asked by Erik Lindblom.
“Why do stars shine in different colors?”
That’s a great question, Eric!
Stars come in a variety of colors, temperatures, ages, brightness and sizes.
This week’s winner of the Clark Planetarium, KUTV-2 Cosmic Quiz is Zachary Griffin. He wants to know, “What is the farthest known galaxy?”
There are several galaxies that are good candidates for the farthest-known galaxy, but what they all have in common is they’re roughly 13 billion light years distant. That means that when astronomers see [...]
Thanks to all of you who submitted questions to the Clark Planetarium, KUTV-2 Cosmic Quiz. Our first week’s winner, William Whetstone, asked us, “Why do Stars twinkle?”
Stars “twinkle” because of turbulence in Earth’s atmosphere. The atmosphere acts like a big, imperfectly formed sheet of glass through which starlight has to pass before it arrives at [...]
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