Space General Knowledge

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1. What is the fastest an object with mass can achieve?
Light
Mach 10
Cheese
US Stealth bomber
2. How many planets are in the solar system? (That we know of)
8
6
3
22
3. What is the name of the closest star system to the Solar System?
Vega
Polaris
Algol
Alpha Centauri
4. Where did the Apollo missions land?
Mercury
Mare Tranquillitatis
Proxima Centauri
The Dark Side Of The Moon
5. What is Earth's escape velocity?
9 kilometers per second
11.2 kilometers per second
10 kilometers per hour
11.2 kilometers per hour
6. Where are stars born?
Nebula
They just pop into existence
Wormhole
Black hole
7. What happens when a star with similar mass of our sun dies?
Supernova
Moon eats everything
Planetary Nebula
Hypernova
8. What happens when a star with several times the mass of the sun dies?
Rings form
Cheese
Planetary Nebula
Supernova
9. If you look at a planet 206 million light-years away, when are you seeing it?
6000 Years Ago
206 Years Ago
180 Million Years Ago
206 Million Years Ago
10. How old is Earth?
6000 years old
230 million years old
4.5 billion years old
12.8 billion years old
11. How old is the universe?
6000 years old
Has existed forever
247 billion years old
13.8 billion years old
12. After a supernova, what forms?
Rings
Heavier Elements
A new star
Black hole/ Neutron star
13. What is M 31? (Messier 31)
Andromeda
Alpha Centauri
Orion Nebula
Betelguese
14. When will the sun die?
5 million years from now
5 billion years from now
13.8 billion years from now
Never
15. What is the only thing in the universe that has a constant speed?
Cars
Light
Planes
Orbits
16. When does the atmosphere "end" and space begins?
10 miles (16 kilometers) above sea level
525 miles (845 kilometers) above sea level
100 miles (161 kilometers) above sea level
62 miles (100 kilometers) above sea level
17. What process keeps the sun and all other stars from imploding?
Gravity
Nuclear Fision
Nuclear Fusion
Angular Momentum
18. The sun contains approximately how much mass of the solar system?
124%
9.86%
99.86%
0.0074%
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