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Quiz: a list of questions and answers on the topic of space

 

So, Bemorepand's editors have selected 90 questions of varying complexity, the answers to some of which can be found by both novice astronomers and advanced people who are interested in the question…

 

 

1. When will Halley's comet be seen next?

Answer: She will return in 2061.

 

2. Which constellation is located in the hottest place in the universe?

Answer: Virgo.

 

3. What is the most plausible estimate of the age of the Earth?

Answer: 4.54 billion years.

 

4. On which planet can rain of diamonds be found?

Answer: Saturn.

 

5. What is the closest planet to the Sun?

Answer: Mercury.

 

6. How many stars are in our star system (galaxy)?

Answer: About 200 billion.

 

7. How many planets in our solar system are made of gas?

Answer: Four.

 

8. Who was the first person to go into space?

Answer: Yuri Gagarin.

 

9. What is the most common type of star in the Milky Way?

Answer: Red dwarfs.

 

10. One of the most famous constellations is Orion. In honor of whom did it get its name?

Answer: In honor of the hunter in Greek myth.

 

11. How many volcanoes do you think are on the surface of Venus?

Answer: More than 1600 volcanoes.

 

 

12. Physical space is often represented in how many linear dimensions?

Answer: In three linear dimensions.

 

13. What stars in the universe have a rotation speed of 600 revolutions per second?

Answer: Neutron stars.

 

14. The weight of the Sun in relation to the total mass of the solar system?

Answer: 99.866% of the total mass of the entire solar system.

 

15. Which planet in our solar system is the densest and has only one satellite?

Answer: Earth.

 

16. The word "astrophysics" comes from a combination of Greek words. Do you know what the word "Astro" refers to?

Answer: Star.

 

17. What is the second smallest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Mars.

 

18. What is the brightest planet in the night sky?

Answer: Venus.

 

19. Which planet has the most moons?

Answer: Saturn.

 

 

20. In what year was Pluto reclassified as a dwarf planet?

Answer: 2006.

 

21. Where can you find the biosphere?

Answer: The lower part of the atmosphere, the entire hydrosphere and the upper part of the lithosphere.

 

22. What phenomena keep the planets in a stable orbit around the Sun?

Answer: Gravity.

 

23. What color would the sky be if you were standing on the Moon and the Sun was shining on you?

Answer: Black.

 

24. Who was the first person to walk on the moon?

Answer: Neil Armstrong.

 

25. Who was the first woman to go into space?

Answer: Valentina Tereshkova

 

26. What color is the Sun?

Answer: The sun appears white to the eye.

 

27. What elements does the Sun consist of?

Answer: First of all, hydrogen and helium, with a number of some other microelements.

 

28. Which celestial body in the solar system has the largest mass?

Answer: Sun.

 

 

29. What is space debris?

Answer: Any artificial object left to fly in Earth's orbit.

 

30. How many stars make up Ursa Major?

Answer: 7 stars.

 

31. Why does the moon glow?

Answer: The moon does not glow by itself, but only reflects sunlight.

 

32. What is the third brightest celestial object in the sky?

Answer: Venus.

 

33. How does a meteor become a meteorite?

Answer: When it falls to the surface of the Earth, burning up in the atmosphere.

 

34. What is the frequency of lunar eclipses?

Answer: At least twice a year.

 

35. How old is the universe?

Answer: Approximately 13.8 billion years.

 

36. Imagine that we have arrived at the next planet, Venus. In visible light, we cannot see the surface of Venus from space. Why?

Answer: Venus is covered by a thick layer of clouds.

 

37. What is the distance between Earth and Mars?

Answer: About 56 million km.

 

 

38. Which planet is closest in size to Earth?

Answer: Venus.

 

39. How many stars are there in the Andromeda Galaxy?

Answer: One trillion.

 

40. What is an Emission Nebula?

Answer: An interstellar cloud that emits light in the optical range due to the ionization of the gas of which it is composed.

 

41. What is the size of the Earth in kilometers?

Answer: 40 075.

 

42. What percentage of the mass of our solar system are the planets?

Answer: 0.135% of the mass of the solar system.

 

43. On which planet does the wind speed exceed supersonic?

Answer: Neptune.

 

44. This planet, also known as the "morning star" and "evening star", has long inspired poets. What is this planet?

Answer: Venus.

 

45. What is the name of the planet, which is sometimes called the sister of the Earth?

Answer: Venus.

 

46. What are the five most famous dwarf planets?

Answer: Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Makemake and Haumea.

 

47. What is the name of the planet closest to the Sun?

Answer: Mercury.

 

48. What is the smallest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Mercury.

 

 

49. Around which planet does the moon called Titan revolve?

Answer: Saturn.

 

50. Which planet is larger - Neptune or Saturn?

Answer: Saturn.

 

51. What protects the Earth from meteorites and solar radiation?

Answer: Atmosphere.

 

52. How many planets can be seen without a telescope?

Answer: 5 - Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

 

53. Phobos and Deimos are satellites of which planet?

Answer: Mars.

 

54. Which planets do not have moons?

Answer: Mercury and Venus.

 

55. Which planet rotates around its axis the fastest?

Answer: Jupiter.

 

56. How long is a year on Jupiter?

Answer: 12 Earth years.

 

57. What is the oldest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Jupiter.

 

 

58. What is the densest planet in our solar system?

Answer: Earth.

 

59. Which planets have rings?

Answer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

 

60. Which planet has the most volcanoes?

Answer: Venus.

 

61. What are the names of the four largest moons of Jupiter?

Answer: Europa, Ganymede, Callisto and Io.

 

62. Which planet rotates in the opposite direction relative to the others?

Answer: Venus.

 

63. What are the four planets - "gas giants"?

Answer: Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.

 

64. What are the four terrestrial planets in the solar system?

Answer: Mercury, Venus, Mars and Earth.

 

65. Why does Mercury have craters?

Answer: Its atmosphere is too thin for meteoroids to burn up without harming the surface.

 

66. Which star is the center of our solar system?

Answer: Sun.

 

67. How old is the Sun?

Answer: Approximately 4.5 billion years.

 

 

68. How long does it take for the sun's rays to reach the earth?

Answer: Eight minutes.

 

69. When was the solar system formed?

Answer: 4.5 billion years ago.

 

70. If you weighed 80 kg on Earth, how much would you weigh on Mars?

Answer: 30 kg.

 

71. What causes the ebb and flow?

Answer: Gravity of the Sun and Moon.

 

72. How long does a solar eclipse last?

Answer: About seven and a half minutes.

 

73. Name the three most famous asteroids.

Answer: Ceres, Pallas, Vesta.

 

74. What is the name of a large number of meteoroids that appear at the same time and in the same place?

Answer: Meteor shower.

 

75. How many Earths can fit inside the Sun?

Answer: One million.

 

76. What color is the sunset on Mars?

Answer: Blue.

 

77. Where can you go to see projections of the night sky?

Answer: Planetarium.

 

 

78. What is the name of the outer atmosphere of the Sun?

Answer: Crown.

 

79. How is the distance between the Sun and the Earth measured?

Answer: In astronomical units (AU).

 

80. How long does it take for the moon to go through all its phases?

Answer: 29 days.

 

81. Where is the Oort cloud located?

Answer: Right behind Pluto.

 

82. How long does it take for the Moon to complete a revolution around the Earth?

Answer: 27 days.

 

83. Who was the third astronaut to walk on the moon?

Answer: Pete Conrad.

 

84. Which astronaut is famous for writing his daughter's initials on the moon?

Answer: Gene Cernan.

 

 

85. What are the names of the storms created by the Sun?

Answer: Solar storms.

 

86. In what constellation are the stars Castor and Pollux?

Answer: Gemini.

 

87. What studies stars, planets and galaxies?

Answer: Astronomy.

 

88. Which constellation has the shape of a winged horse?

Answer: Pegasus.

 

89. Which star is closest to the Earth?

Answer: Sun.

 

90. What is the name of the path traveled by a celestial body in space?

Answer: Orbit.

 

 

 

Surely each of us at least once in his life wondered, looking into the starry sky - what is there, beyond our Earth? Are there brothers in mind in these endless expanses? We are not talking about the sacramental question "Is there life on Mars?".

 

About black holes, wandering planets and other space facts - in short and accessible language

 

Of course, from school textbooks on astronomy, we remember something about our Universe, but over time, if you do not get carried away with this subject, knowledge is forgotten. But that's not the point. It's just that new facts about space are constantly being discovered - from a mega-huge void to "Planet Nine". Or, for example, have you heard about white holes? We were not mistaken, it was about whites (you probably already know about blacks anyway). And how long do you think a person can stay in outer space without a spacesuit?

 

Do you want to know? Then read our selection. We promise: you will learn a lot for yourself.

 

 

1. Any freely moving fluid in outer space will turn into a sphere.

 

2. The mass of the Sun occupies 99.86% of our solar system.

 

3. The biggest black hole - Monster Black Hole.

 

4. If a star passes too close to a black hole, it can be torn apart.

 

5. The gravity of Jupiter attracts a large percentage of asteroids, and this protects us from cosmic collisions.

 

6. Saturn would float in water if there was a suitable container.

 

7. We know more about Mars and our Moon than we do about our oceans.

 

8. There are more stars in the Universe than there are grains of sand on all the beaches of the Earth. That's at least a billion trillion!

 

9. Earth's Moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system.

 

10. Metallic snow and sulfuric acid rain on Venus.

 

11. Scientists have discovered a 1 billion light-year-wide void in space that could be a parallel universe.

 

12. Saturn has a huge extra ring that was only discovered in 2009.

 

 

13. About once a year, an asteroid the size of a car enters the Earth's atmosphere, but it burns up before it reaches us.

 

14. Neutron stars can rotate 600 times per second.

 

15. More than a million Earths can fit inside the Sun, and the Sun is considered a medium-sized star.

 

16. Comets are the remnants of the creation of our solar system about 4.5 billion years ago, they are composed of sand, ice and carbon dioxide.

 

17. There is a planet made of diamonds.

 

18. About 1.4 billion years ago, a day on Earth lasted only 18 hours and 41 minutes.

 

19. The International Space Station orbits the Earth every 90 minutes.

 

20. For many years, it was believed that the Earth was the only planet in our solar system with liquid water. Most recently, NASA presented the most compelling evidence that Mars also periodically flows water!

 

21. The International Space Station (ISS) is the size of a football field.

 

22. More than 4,000 exoplanets are known, and their number continues to grow.

 

 

23. Mercury is still contracting.

 

24. At the edge of the solar system there may be a huge planet, nicknamed "Planet Nine".

 

25. Stars twinkle because light is distorted as it passes through the Earth's atmosphere.

 

26. Pluto is smaller than the United States.

 

27. The first living mammal to go into space was a dog named Laika from Russia.

 

28. There is complete silence in space, because there is no air in space - this is a vacuum.

 

29. At the center of the Milky Way galaxy are tens of thousands of black holes.

 

30. The largest known asteroid is 940 km wide.

 

31. Saturn has 83 known moons and the number continues to grow.

 

32. There are 2,000,000,000,000 galaxies in the observable universe.

 

33. Gamma-ray bursts can release more energy in 10 seconds than our Sun in its entire 10 billion years of its life.

 

 

34. Shooting stars are space junk that burns up as they enter the Earth's atmosphere.

 

35. If you drill a tunnel through the Earth and jump into it, you will reach the other side in 42 minutes and 12 seconds.

 

36. The estimated cost of a NASA spacesuit made in 1974 is between $15 million and $22 million per unit.

 

37. If two pieces of the same type of metal come into contact in space, they will forever unite.

 

38. On Titan, the satellite of Saturn, there are also lakes. The liquid in Titan's lakes is not water, but a substance called methane.

 

39. The moon has the shape of a lemon.

 

40. To date, more than 600 people have been in space.

 

41. The sun makes a complete revolution once every 25-35 days.

 

42. We always see the same side of the Moon, no matter where we are on Earth.

 

 

43. There is a planet in our galaxy where the daytime temperature is almost 1093.333 degrees Celsius, and it may be raining glass horizontally.

 

44. Halley's Comet won't orbit Earth again until 2061.

 

45. Planets can wander in space without a parent star.

 

46. Only 5% of the Universe is visible from Earth.

 

47. You can't walk on Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus or Neptune because they don't have a solid surface!

 

48. If you could fly a plane to Pluto, the journey would take over 800 years.

 

49. Black holes have theoretical opposites known as white holes.

 

50. Powerful volcanic eruptions occur on Jupiter's moon Io.

 

51. There are mountains on Pluto.

 

52. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh as much as Mount Everest.

 

53. The moon is moving further away from the Earth every year.

 

54. You would last in space for about 15 seconds without a space suit.

 

 

55. Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka spent the most in space - 879 days.

 

56. The rings of Saturn seem to disappear from time to time.

 

57. If you fell into a black hole, you would stretch out like spaghetti.

 

58. The dead skin of your feet flakes off in space.

 

59. The star VY Canis Majoris is the largest star in the universe, its diameter is about 2000 times the diameter of our Sun.

 

60. The hottest planet in our solar system is Venus, whose temperature reaches 464°C.