Cosmos - Episode 3

"disaster" comes from the Greek words for...

• "bad star"

• sickness

• bad stuff

• bad omen

Every time comets come close to the sun, part of them

• freezes

• evaporates

• condenses

• sets on fire

The Oort cloud is a vast swarm of ___ surrounding the sun.

• asteroids

• stars

• planets

• comets

Our solar system is ___ from the center of the Milky Way.

• 30,000 miles

• 10 minutes

• 30,000 light-years

• 50,000 light-years

Who made the first accurate star map of the Southern Hemisphere?

• Socrates

• Galileo

• Plato

• Edmond Halley

Nulius in verba is Latin for...

• See for yourself

• Go do things

• Don't question authority

• Put up or shut up

Coffeehouses became popular because people became...

• hyper

• sleepy

• equals

• festive

The scientist who first calculated how the planets move in ellipses was...

• Robert Hooke

• Edmond Halley

• Isaac Newton

• Duck Newton

Edmond Halley invented

• The weather map

• The diving bell

• The laws of gravity

• Electricity

Halley's comet appears once every...

• year

• 56 years

• 76 years

• century