Space General Knowledge

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