True/False: OGLE-2014-BLG-0124Lb Is the furthest Exoplanet from Earth?
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What is a round, or spherical, celestial body that is in orbit around a star?
Planet
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True/False: With modern technology, it would only take us about 4 years to get to Proxima Centauri b.
False-it would take us about 165,000 years
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What is the closest Planetary System & Exoplanet to our Solar System?
Proxima Centauri b
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In order to find an exoplanet, scientist will watching for wobble in a star caused by a planet. What is this called (Radial Velocity or Transit)?
Radial Velocity
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The star a planet orbits around is called what?
Host Star
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What is a path taken by an object around another object in a regular & repeating way?
Orbit/Revolve
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What is a Planet called that is smaller than Neptune but bigger than Earth.
Mini-Neptune
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What is a planet called that is more massive than Earth but smaller than Neptune, and usually Terrestrial/Rocky?
Super Earth
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What is the distance light travels in one year called?
Light Year
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True/False: Proxima Centauri b orbits close to its star & is a Super Earth
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True/False: The colder a star is, the further out the habitable zone can be.
False-the hotter a star is, the further out the habitable zone can be.
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In order to find an exoplanet, scientist will look for how light from a distant star is bent & focused by gravity as the planet passes between the star & Earth. What is this called (Astrometry or Gravitational Microlensing)?