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Who didn’t want to be an astronaut when they grew up? Astronauts are the primary reason children know how to count backwards – it’s always the most fun to pretend to blast off in a rocket ship! But what if you could do that for real? For starters, you wouldn’t venture out into the open road without Show More
Who didn’t want to be an astronaut when they grew up? Astronauts are the primary reason children know how to count backwards – it’s always the most fun to pretend to blast off in a rocket ship! But what if you could do that for real? For starters, you wouldn’t venture out into the open road without having a driver’s license, so you should probably know your way around space if you want to go exploring out there as well. Everything about 5th grade astronomy was awesome from experiments in science class to any time you got within 100 feet of a planetarium, which was a lot.
But, how much of that information did you retain? You don’t have to convert light years in miles per hour or have any statistics committed to memory, so don’t sweat it. This is basic outer-space trivia that will have only stuck in your brain if you’re a true space nerd. Is that you? Let’s find out. To infinity… and Bed Bath and Beyond!
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Asteroids aren't planets, but they're still part of our solar system. The main asteroid belt in our solar system is sandwiched between which two planets?
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Mars and Jupiter
Jupiter and Saturn
Saturn and Neptune
Earth and Venus
Earth and Mars
Pluto and the rest of the universe
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The earth spins on its axis and tilts one way or another, giving us seasons. Which planet spins on its axis completely on its side? It's lopsided!
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Saturn
Jupiter
Neptune
Uranus
Pluto
Mercury
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We have one moon, but some planets have several. Which one of these celestial beauties belongs to the planet Saturn?
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Ganymede
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Europa
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Titan
Io
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Can you imagine being able to see Earth like this? Astronauts can, probably because they've been there. Which one of these things can you NOT see on Earth from outer space?
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The Great Wall of China
The Great Pyramid of Giza
The Greenhouses of AlmerĂa
Bingham Canyon Mine
Hurricanes
City lights
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Believe it or not, this question actually has an answer. Why do stars twinkle?
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Doppler effect after traveling lightyears
Stars travel through space and twinkle because they’re moving further away or closer to Earth
Distant objects pass in front of them that we can’t see with the naked eye
Their light gets disrupted passing through the atmosphere
We blink, they don’t twinkle
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Did you know there are different classifications of stars? Do you know what kind of star our sun is?
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Neutron star
White dwarf
Yellow dwarf
Yellow supergiant
Red giant
White giant
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This is the sun rising over the ocean, keeping us warm, like it does for every other planet in the solar system, but which planet is the hottest?
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Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
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Galaxies clustered together by gravity are scientifically called a "group." Fancy, we know. What's the name of the group our galaxy is a part of?
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Ceres
Maffei
Copernicus
Centaurus
Milky Way
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Can you tell the galaxy apart from the nebulae just by looking at them? We bet you can! Which one of these celestial formations is a galaxy?
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This one
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No, this one
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Actually, maybe this one
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It could be this one?
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So much of space is... space. Speaking of space, what's dark matter?
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Another word for black holes
What we call matter that falls out of black holes
Hypothetical non-luminous material of many forms
Unaccounted for parts of our expanding universe
The vacuous space between the stars, planets, and everything else.
Dark matter exists only on Earth, not in space
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They look similar, but they're actually quite different. What's the difference between a comet and a shooting star?
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Comets don’t burn up when they enter our atmosphere due to their frozen center
Shooting stars are meteors and comets are hot asteroids
Shooting stars are tiny rocks burning through our atmosphere and comets exist in an orbit
Shooting stars are dying stars, comets are comets
Shooting stars orbit closer to Earth so we see more of them more often
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When a star dies, it explodes into a supernova. Black holes are formed after supernovas. But, is a black hole formed in space every time a star dies?
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