Astronomy

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1 Mars 85x

2 Venus 84x

3 Saturn 65x

4 Pluto 63x

5 Freddie Mercury 63x

6 Neptune 62x

7 Jupiter 58x

8 Uranus 43x

9 Gemini 33x

10 Orion 31x

11 the Earth 29x

12 the harvest moon 28x

13 Halley's Comet 27x

14 an asteroid 24x

15 Galileo 23x

16 Aquarius 23x

17 Skylab 22x

18 Andromeda 21x

19 Taurus 19x

20 the Milky Way 19x

21 a black hole 18x

22 Virgo 17x

23 Scorpio 17x

24 Sagittarius 17x

25 Libra 17x

26 Aries 17x

27 a comet 17x

28 Sirius 17x

29 away from the Sun 16x

30 Leo 15x

31 Pisces 13x

32 asteroids 13x

33 Alan Shepard 13x

34 a supernova 13x

35 Cancer 12x

36 Tycho Brahe 12x

37 Titan 11x

38 Mir 11x

39 a nebula 11x

40 stars 10x

41 hydrogen 10x

42 comets 10x

43 the Southern Cross 10x

44 the rings 10x

45 Nicolaus Copernicus 10x

46 a solar eclipse 10x

47 galaxies 9x

48 Capricorn 9x

49 a spiral 9x

50 the solar wind 9x

Sample Clues

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Mars

A line of ladies' razors

Venus

This planet's famous rings were first seen by the Italian scientist Galileo in 1610

Saturn

The New Horizons spacecraft flew by this object in 2015 & also got a good look at its satellite, Charon

Pluto

This member of singing royalty said, "Rod Stewart, Elton John & I were going to form a band... called Hair, Nose & Teeth"

Freddie Mercury

Sub-Areas

Astronomy / Space 2,182

Venus (86) Mars (86) Saturn (69) Pluto (64) Freddie Mercury (63) Neptune (63) Jupiter (58) Uranus (43) the harvest moon (29) Halley's Comet (27)

Other 399

Gemini (16) Virgo (12) Libra (11) Aquarius (10) Aries (9) Taurus (9) the Earth (7) Copernicus (6) a solar eclipse (6) Skylab (6)

Chemistry / Elements 206

Mir (8) Skylab (6) Orion (6) Gemini (5) earth (4) Soyuz (3) the Space Shuttle (3) Apollo 13 (3) hydrogen (2) Pig iron (2)

Biology / Animals 105

Pisces (5) Aquarius (3) Scorpio (2) the whale (2) Neil Armstrong (2) a dog (2) Atlantis (2) Aristotle (2) (Cape) Canaveral (1) Minnesota (1)

Math / Physics 49

Scorpio (7) galaxies (2) Pisces (2) Pinto (1) Abyssinian (1) Capricorn (1) Scorpio & Cancer (1) Aquarius (1) magnetic north pole (1) Galileo (1)

Earth Science 35

meteor showers (2) a meteor (2) meteors (2) the booster (2) Challenger Deep (1) a crater dater (crater rater accepted) (1) the Leonids (1) Japan (1) Thunberg (1) Poseidon (1)

Medicine / Health 4

Buzz Aldrin (1) clusters (1) a candy striper (1) the skin (1)

Botany / Plants 4

a ginkgo (1) (American) chestnuts (1) Lily Tomlin (1) The Mandalorian (1)