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1
Between which planets is the asteroid belt located?
Mars and Jupiter
Jupiter and Saturn
Saturn and Uranus
Venus and Earth
48% got this right
2
What is the name of this telescope?
Hubble
Galileo
James Webb
Sky Watcher
36% got this right
Hubble Space Telescope
3
What is the name of the hypothetical spherical region of the solar system that is the source of long-period comets?
Oort cloud
Hill sphere
Kuiper Belt
Magellanic Cloud
13% got this right
The estimated distance to the outer edges of the Oort cloud from the Sun is approximately a light year.
4
Which planets rotate clockwise? (If we look down from the North Pole of the Sun)
Uranus
Venus
Earth
Jupiter
34% got this right
5
Which comet was visible to the naked eye for a record period of 18 months? (The comet was discovered in 1995)
Comet Hale-Bopp
Comet Lovejoy
Great January Comet
Halley's Comet
19% got this right
6
Who was the first person to walk in space?
Alexei Leonov
Buzz Aldrin
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
11% got this right
7
What is the name of the dark nebula located in the constellation of the Southern Cross?
Coalsack Nebula
Andromeda Nebula
Black Hole Nebula
Neptune Nebula
18% got this right
This is a clearly visible dark nebula in the sky, first mentioned by the Spanish navigator Vicente Yañez Pinzón
8
What is the name of the distance from the Sun to the Earth?
Astronomical unit
Parsec
Solar radius
Speed of light
36% got this right
9
Which orbital station was the first in the world?
Salyut-1
International Space Station
Mir
Skylab
28% got this right
The station was launched on April 19, 1971.
10
In what year was the first module of the ISS launched?
1995 —
1998
— 2003
66% got this right
November 20, 1998
11
Which shuttle made the final flight of the Space Shuttle program?
Atlantis
Columbia
Discovery
Endeavour
30% got this right
July 21, 2011
