About This Quiz
Are you a future astronomer? This quiz will test your mettle. There's so much to know when it comes to space. It's so vast that it's unfathomable! We're going to test your basic knowledge of the heavens, and we promise that when you're done, you won't be able to come back down to Earth!Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. No Pluto!!!!
There are billions of other planets out there in the cosmos. Just think of the possibilities!
You actually get taller in space, because gravity isn't weighing you down!
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One space suit costs $11 million dollars! And it wasn't even designed by Prada!
Estimates vary, but that is quite a long time!
One Mercury day lasts for nearly 59 days of Earth time! That's a long day.
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You would literally stretch like spaghetti. That would hurt!
Gravity from the sun and moon - especially the moon - create the high and low tides. Cool!
Neil Armstrong said these famous words when he was the first man to walk on the moon. There has been debate as to whether Armstrong said "for a man" or "for man."
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Ganymede, Jupiter's moon, is the largest in our solar system.
It comes around about every 75 years. Put it on your calendar.
The planet is not solid, but almost entirely made of gas. It's a gas giant, in fact.
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Saturn has the most rings, made of rock and ice. Some chunks are the size of large buildings!
Your feet actually peel when in space, because you're not using them to walk. The callouses fall off, leaving baby-soft skin!
You can actually fit 1.3 million Earths inside the sun! That's pretty crazy.
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It translates into "star sailor." That's a pretty awesome title.
Brave and smart, but no life insurance? It was prohibitively expensive. To make up for it, they signed tons of envelope autographs while in quarantine, which a friend later postmarked on important dates, so their families could sell them if things went wrong.
SETI is looking for aliens! They haven't found any yet.
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According to Einstein's theory of relativity, the universe is bending in a curve.
The astronomer Copernicus was the first to state that the Earth goes round the sun, and not the other way around!
Yep, that's pretty much everything that you need to know about space toilets.
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Exploding volcanoes supplied the gases that formed the Earth's atmosphere. Thank you, volcanoes!
That's right - 10 billion years. It's about halfway through its life!
The dog known as Laika was sent up to space and he orbited the Earth, but sadly, he died. He will always be remembered.
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That is a twisting, gaseous anticyclone - sort of like a giant hurricane. Nothing about that sounds like a good time.
Nebula means "mist" or "cloud" in Latin. Cosmic clouds are known as nebulae.
That's right; there are more than a trillion other galaxies out there! Wow.
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Quasars are bits of matter that are pulled into a black hole and they glow brightly! That's the only upside to being pulled into a black hole.
A sidereal day is about four minutes shorter than a regular Earth day. It's the time our planet takes to rotate on its axis, relative to distant stars.
As a comet nears the sun, the exterior melts from the heat. There are actually two tails - one gas, and one made of dust particles.
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The surface is sprayed with an anti-fog compound in order to keep the visor from misting. Seems pretty crucial.
The very furthest galaxies are expanding outward. The universe is getting bigger!
The alpha star is the brightest, and the beta star is second.
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There are a lot of satellites up there! How do they not crash into each other?
In 2006, Pluto was reclassified as a dwarf planet because it is too small to clear debris from its own orbit. That's one of the requirements of planet-ness.