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Space General Knowledge

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