Universe Quiz

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Question	Answer
What is the name for our sun in Latin?	Sol
What arm is our solar system located in?	Orion
What is the closest planet to the Sun?	Mercury
What is the name of the hottest known temperature on Venus in Fahrenheit?	864 Degrees
What is the largest continent on Venus?	Aphrodite Terra
What is the smallest continent on Venus?	Ishtar Terra
What is the highest point on Venus?	Maxwell Montes
What is the name of our planet?	Earth
What part of the Moon is the Ocean of Storms located?	Western Edge
What is the real name of the Ocean of Storms?	Oceanus Procellarum
What is the location that the Apollo 11 landed on the Moon?	Mare Tranquilitatis
How many phases does the Moon have?	8
What is the name of the largest mountain in the solar system?	Olympus Mons
What is the real name of Hellas Basin on Mars?	Hellas Planitia
What is the real name of the Meridian Bay on Mars?	Sinus Meridiani
How many moons does Mars have?	2
What is the name of Mars's largest moon?	Phobos
What is the name of the belt of asteroids laying after Mars.	Asteroid Belt
What is the diameter of Jupiter?	86,881 Miles
What is the name of the largest moon in the solar system?	Ganymede
How many rings does Saturn have?	7
What is the coldest temperature on Uranus	-371 Degrees
How many rings does Neptune have?	5
What is the name of the dwarf planet, but was orignally a planet?	Pluto
What is the name of Eris's moon.	Dysnomia
What is the name of the belt that has frozen asteroids?	Kuiper Belt

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What is the name of the largest centaur in our solar system?	10199 Chariklo
What is name of the cloud that is surrounding our solar system?	Oort Cloud
What is the shape of the Milky Way?	Spiral
What is in the center of our galaxy?	Supermassive Black Hole
What is the closest galaxy to us?	Andromeda
What is the name of the trinary star system which is closest to us?	Alpha Centauri
What is the name of the supercluster that we're in?	Virgo Supercluster
What is the name of the largest known supercluster?	Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall
What do some stars explode into?	Supernova
What cloud of gas forms stars?	Nebula
What is the largest galaxy?	IC 1101
What is the actual name of the North Star?	Polaris
What is the largest star?	UY Scuti
What is the smallest star?	EBLM J0555-57
What is the largest exoplanet?	WASP-17b
How many known moons does Jupiter have?	79
How many known moons does Saturn have?	82
How many known moons does Uranus have?	27
How many known moons does Neptune have?	14
How fast is light in MPH?	670 Million
What is the estimated age of the universe?	13 Billion
What is the closest star to Earth outside of the solar system?	Proxima Centauri
What is the temperature of the star Betelgeuse?	3,500 K
What is the closest supercluster from Earth?	Coma Supercluster
What is the name of the point in a black hole that light cannot escape?	Event Horizon