Space General Knowledge

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