Space & Astronomy
24 questionsTest your knowledge of stars, galaxies, and space exploration beyond the solar system.
What is the closest star to Earth (other than the Sun)?
The correct answer is C. Proxima Centauri
What galaxy do we live in?
The correct answer is B. Milky Way
What is a light-year a measure of?
The correct answer is B. Distance
What is the name of the NASA program that landed humans on the Moon?
The correct answer is A. Apollo
In what year did humans first land on the Moon?
The correct answer is C. 1969
What is a supernova?
The correct answer is D. An exploding star
What is a black hole?
The correct answer is D. A region where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by which space agency?
The correct answer is C. NASA
What is the name of the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way?
The correct answer is A. Andromeda Galaxy
What type of object is the Sun?
The correct answer is D. Star (main sequence)
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits which celestial body?
The correct answer is A. Earth
What is a nebula?
The correct answer is A. A cloud of gas and dust in space
Who was the first person to walk in space?
The correct answer is A. Alexei Leonov (USSR)
What is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
The correct answer is C. Sputnik 1
The James Webb Space Telescope primarily observes in what part of the spectrum?
The correct answer is A. Infrared
What is a pulsar?
The correct answer is A. A rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of radiation
Approximately how far is the Moon from Earth?
The correct answer is C. About 384,400 km (239,000 miles)
What is the name of the theoretical boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
The correct answer is B. Event horizon
Which planet did the Voyager probes visit before heading to interstellar space?
The correct answer is A. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
What is the approximate age of the universe according to current estimates?
The correct answer is B. About 13.8 billion years
What phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun?
The correct answer is D. Solar eclipse
The "Big Dipper" is part of which constellation?
The correct answer is C. Ursa Major
What is the name of the first human to orbit Earth?
The correct answer is D. Yuri Gagarin
Mars is often called the Red Planet because of what compound on its surface?
The correct answer is B. Iron oxide (rust)
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