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Space General Knowledge Quiz #1
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Last updated: March 15, 2024
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1. How many rings does Saturn have?
8
7
6
5
2. What is the brightest star in the sky?
Polaris
Sirius
Proxima Centauri
Sol
3. What supercluster contains the milky way and it's neighbours?
Virgo Supercluster
Laniakea Supercluster
King Ghidorah Supercluster
Perseus–Pisces Supercluster
4. What is the largest exoplanet ever discovered?
Kepler-050306J
TON-618
Kepler-180606E
TOI-849b
5. Which is the densest?
White Dwarf
Neutron Star
Black Hole
Main-Sequence Star
6. Who predicted the existence of Neptune using mathematics?
Alexis Beauvard
Urbain Le Verrier
George Airy
Isaac Newton
7. Who first used a telescope to see Neptune?
Johann Galle
Galileo Galilei
Edwin Hubble
John Couch Adams
8. What actually led to astronomers in the 19th century predicting and discovering an 8th planet?
It was seen in the night sky by Galileo using his primitive telescope
Lengthening and shortening of the orbit of the earth over a 164 year period
Periodic increase and decrease of astronomical events such as meteors burning up in the atmosphere
Disturbances in Uranus' orbit that couldn't be explained by Newtonian gravity
9. What is the closest red dwarf star to sol?
Proxima Centauri
Barnard's Star
Alpha Centauri a
EZ Aquarii
10. What is the approximate age of the universe?
13.8 Billion years
14.8 Billion years
2024 years
4.5 Billion years
11. What is the Kármán line?
A hypothetical radius around the earth where earth's gravity appears to be negligible
The line that separates The Earth into its northern and southern hemispheres
The plane that the solar system exists on relative to the milky way, and is about 60.2 degrees
A hypothetical altitude above The Earth's surface that draws the boundary between the upper atmosphere and space
12. What would happen if the moon orbited much closer to the earth
It would lose orbital velocity due to the atmosphere and crash into the earth
It would crumble due to the Roche limit of the earth and form beautiful rings around the earth
It would melt during reentry and merge with the earth all at once
13. How fast can a mass theoretically accelerate to?
The speed of light
<299,792,458m/s
2 million kilometers per hour
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1 Comments
TylerDex
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Level 50
Jun 7, 2024
q7 is wrong, galileo was born in 16th century and neptune was discovered in 19th century lmao, its johann galle
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