Hint
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Answer
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List the first letter of each of the eight planets, in order, starting with the closest to the sun
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MVEMJSUN
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Demoted to a dwarf planet in 2005-2006
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Pluto
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Largest moon of the above
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Charon
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Tallest mountain on any planet in the solar system
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Olympus Mons
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Ancient, most luminous and energetic objects yet discovered in the observable universe
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Quasar
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Any planet that orbits a star outside of our solar system
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Exoplanet
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Rocky objects orbiting the sun. There are lots between Mars and Jupiter.
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Asteroid
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The type of nuclear reaction that provides energy for stars
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Fusion
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The most abundant element in the universe
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Hydrogen
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The element produced from the above in the process mentioned in question #8
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Helium
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Famous guide to the galaxy with the words "DON'T PANIC" written in large, friendly letters on the cover
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Hitchhiker's
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Polish mathematician and astronomer who proposed the Heliocentric model of the solar system
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Nicolaus Copernicus
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Artist who created famous 'Starry Night' painting
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Vincent van Gogh
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Brightest electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe
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Gamma Ray Burst
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Hawiian name for our local galactic neighbourhood, containing The Milky Way and 100,000 other galaxies
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Laniakea
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Rapidly spinning neutron star
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Pulsar
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Mysterious invisible stuff that seems to account for most of the weight of the universe
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Dark matter
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Name of the famous hubble photo containing thousands of distant, ancient galaxies
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Ultra deep field
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Name for the theory describing the rapid, exponential growth of the universe very shortly after the big bang
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Inflation
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Famous scientist who created three laws of motion
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Isaac Newton
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Planet mathematically predicted any subsequently discovered thanks to the discoveries of the above
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Neptune
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Famous scientist who discovered time dilation
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Albert Einstein
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Scientist famous for unifying the work of the above with quantum mechanics
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Stephen Hawking
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The C in E=MC^2 stands for this
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Constant
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The most famous example of this C
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The Speed of Light
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Still I got 18/25 right. Not bad, may be not good amongst science enthousiasts, but if you ask a random person on the street I would estimate the score would be about 2/25
(didnt think of quasar or exoplanet, mind went to something made up like extragallactical (planet) haha. The exponential growth one is expansion/ expanding in my language, couldnt think of anything else. And the hawaii, hubble and gamma ray burst I really didnt know)
"The C in E=MC^2 stands for this"
Actually, it "stands for" the speed of light.
Also Hawking did not "unify" work of Einstein with quantum mechanics (odd phrasing since Einstein was one of the founders of QM). No one has.
And even if you are not changing that, the deep field image's official name is actually "Hubble Ultra-Deep Field," not just the "Ultra-Deep Field."
C means celeritas and is the speed of light and does not mean constant (even if it is one).
"H2G2" shall be accepted as "Hichhiker guide" and not hichhiker's as it is not entitled that way.
I've never heard that about Hawking.
In an astronomy quizz, Kepler is mort expected than Newton for the three laws of motion.
Einstein did not discover time dilation. Several other people proposed that effect as a means to explain the Michelson-Morley experiment. Wikipedia mentions Larmor and Cohn in particular. Einstein later showed that time dilation would be a *consequence* of his Special Theory of Relativity.
In answer to "unified Einstein's work with quantum mechanics?", you need to make clear which work you're referring to. If Special Relativity, the answer is Dirac, though partial credit would be deserved for Klein and Gordon. If General Relativity, the answer is no one, at least not yet. If the photoelectric effect, the answer is Einstein himself. Hawking is not a correct answer to this question for any of Einstein's work.