Exoplanets

Kepler 186f is an exoplanet in the habitable zone of it's star. It is 558 light years from Earth. When did the light we see today leave that star headed for our telescopes?

• 1490

• 1466

• 1565

• 1515

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

The method of finding an exoplanet by detecting the light blocked as it passes its star is __________

• blocking

• eclipsing

• parallax

• transit

What new space based telescope is expected to give us lots of new information about exoplanets?

• Kepler space telescope

• James Webb space telescope

• Hubble space telescope

• Galileo space telescope

The first confirmed detection of planets outside our solar system occurred in which year?

• 1952

• 1972

• 1992

• 2012

Giant gaseous exoplanets that orbit very close to their parent star are called ___

• hot Jupiters

• quick Saturns

• short period Saturns

• high rate Jupiters

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

The beauty of transiting exoplanets is that the amount of starlight blocked tells you ___

• how far away the planet is

• how big the planet is

• the density of the planet

• the mass of the planet

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS4-1

The smallest exoplanet found is ___

• not much bigger than Earth's moon

• about the size of Mercury

• about the size of Mars

• not much smaller than Earth

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

What is the name of the space telescope that was designed to search for exoplanets? And in what year was it launched?

• Kepler in 1999

• Exodetector in 2009

• Kepler in 2009

• Hubble in 1999

What is the term for the area around a star where liquid water could be found on it's planets __________________

• habitable zone

• aqueous zone

• zone of life

• green zone

The habitable zone around a star is the area where a planet is most likely to have __________

• rings

• oxygen

• water

• life