Exoplanets

Any planet outside our solar system is called a(n) ______.

• dwarf planet

• exoplanet

• galaxy

• gas giant

What is it called when a planet crosses directly in front of it's star?

• a Hot Jupiter

• an eclipse

• a direct line

• a transit

What is one way exoplanets are indirectly detected?

• The Hubble Space Telescope

• Infrared Waves

• X-Rays

• The doppler shift

How many exoplanets do scientists believe might there be in our galaxy?

• millions

• Hundreds of billions

• trillions

• Hundreds of Thousands

How many earth-like exoplanets might there be in our galaxy?

• thousands

• hundreds of thousands

• billions

• millions

How were early exoplanets found?

• hubble space telescope

• wobble of distant stars

• infrared photography

• radio telescopes

As of May 2023, about how many confirmed exoplanets are there in our galaxy?

• 8

• 100

• 5000

• 1,000,000

What space telescope launched in 2009 in resposible for most current exoplanet discoveries?

• Kepler

• James Webb

• Galileo

• Hubble

How are most exoplanets currently discovered?

• wobble

• transit

• photograph

• radio signal

The habitable zone for exoplanetsis set mainly by the possibility of ______.

• carbon

• liquid water

• an atmosphere

• a rocky planet