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Question 1easy
What is the closest star to Earth (other than the Sun)?
The correct answer is C. Proxima Centauri
Question 2easy
What galaxy do we live in?
The correct answer is B. Milky Way
Question 3easy
What is a light-year a measure of?
The correct answer is B. Distance
Question 4easy
What is the name of the NASA program that landed humans on the Moon?
The correct answer is A. Apollo
Question 5easy
In what year did humans first land on the Moon?
The correct answer is C. 1969
Question 6easy
What is a supernova?
The correct answer is D. An exploding star
Question 7medium
What is a black hole?
The correct answer is D. A region where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape
Question 8medium
The Hubble Space Telescope was launched by which space agency?
The correct answer is C. NASA
Question 9medium
What is the name of the nearest large galaxy to the Milky Way?
The correct answer is A. Andromeda Galaxy
Question 10medium
What type of object is the Sun?
The correct answer is D. Star (main sequence)
Question 11medium
The International Space Station (ISS) orbits which celestial body?
The correct answer is A. Earth
Question 12medium
What is a nebula?
The correct answer is A. A cloud of gas and dust in space
Question 13medium
Who was the first person to walk in space?
The correct answer is A. Alexei Leonov (USSR)
Question 14medium
What is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
The correct answer is C. Sputnik 1
Question 15medium
The James Webb Space Telescope primarily observes in what part of the spectrum?
The correct answer is A. Infrared
Question 16hard
What is a pulsar?
The correct answer is A. A rapidly rotating neutron star that emits beams of radiation
Question 17hard
About how far is the Moon from Earth on average?
The correct answer is C. 238,000 miles
Question 18hard
What is the name of the theoretical boundary around a black hole beyond which nothing can escape?
The correct answer is B. Event horizon
Question 19hard
Which planet did the Voyager probes visit before heading to interstellar space?
The correct answer is A. Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune
Question 20hard
What is the approximate age of the universe according to current estimates?
The correct answer is B. About 13.8 billion years
Question 21hard
What phenomenon occurs when the Moon passes directly between Earth and the Sun?
The correct answer is D. Solar eclipse
Question 22hard
The "Big Dipper" is part of which constellation?
The correct answer is C. Ursa Major
Question 23hard
What is the name of the first human to orbit Earth?
The correct answer is D. Yuri Gagarin
Question 24hard
Mars is often called the Red Planet because of what compound on its surface?
The correct answer is B. Iron oxide (rust)
Question 25easy
What is the name of our galaxy?
The correct answer is B. The Milky Way
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