Space Trivia: Galaxies, Planets, & Beyond!
1.
What is the closest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way?
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Andromeda Galaxy
2.
What time of day should you view meteor showers to see them burn their brightest?
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Just Before Dawn
3.
Who said "In the center rests the sun"?
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Nicolaus Copernicus
4.
What measure compares stars by their theoretical brightness if placed at a uniform distance?
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Absolute Magnitude
5.
Material composed of antiparticles is known as what?
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Anti-Matter
6.
How is the Sun's energy generated?
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Hydrogen Fusion
7.
What former astronaut died of cancer just before he was to take a political office?
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Jack Swigert
8.
What ancient Greek philosopher believed the sun to be a blazing rock and used that model to correctly explain eclipses?
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Anaxagoras
9.
What famous astronomer was Tycho Brahe's assistant?
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Johannes Kepler
10.
Believed to have portals used for solar observations, Hovenweep Castle was built by what people?
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Anasazi
11.
Whose First Law of Planetary Motion says that every planet's orbit is an ellipse?
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Kepler
12.
What are the cold remains of a white dwarf called after all its thermal energy has been exhausted?
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Black Dwarf
13.
If two planets are three units apart, the force of gravity is how much less than if they were one unit apart?
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One-Ninth
14.
What is said to connect a black hole to a white hole in an alternate universe?
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Einstein-Rosen Bridge
15.
Who were the only two astronauts who flew to the Moon and also flew the space shuttle?
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John Young, Thomas Mattingly
16.
One parsec, a unit of distance in professional astronomy, is the equivalent of how many light years?
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Jan/00
17.
One light-year, the distance light travels in a vacuum in one year, is equivalent to how many miles?
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5.87 trillion
18.
What planet was almost named "George's Star", after George III?
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Uranus
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