Astronomy
Try not to space out while you answer these Astronomy questions. Reach for the stars because this trivia is out of this world. If you planet carefully, you can totally rocket!
Venus is the only planet that does what?
WHAT PLANET HAS A STORM SYSTEM CALLED THE GREAT RED SPOT?
What planet can be seen with the naked eye?
WHAT PLANET IN OUR SYSTEM IS NOT NAMED AFTER A GOD?
Wilhelm Beer and Johan von Madler created the first good map of what satellite in 1830?
WHAT PLANET IS CIRCLED BY ONLY TWO MOONS?
HOW FAR IS THE MOON FROM THE EARTH?
WHAT PLANET IS MOST LIKE EARTH IN SIZE, MASS, DENSITY AND GRAVITY?
HOW LONG IS A MARTIAN YEAR IN EARTH DAYS – A YEAR BEING THE LENGTH OF TIME IT TAKES THE PLANET TO REVOLVE ONCE AROUND THE SUN?
WHAT PLANET IS NEAREST IN SIZE TO EARTH?
THE STAR ANTARES IS IN WHICH CONSTELLATION?
WHAT STAR OTHER THAN THE SUN IS CLOSEST TO THE EARTH?
WHAT ARE THERE 88 OF IN THE NIGHT SKY, ACCORDING TO THE INTERNATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL UNION?
Where in the USA was there a total eclipse in 1991?
WHAT IS A BROWN DWARF?
WHO WAS AMAZED TO SEE THE MOONS OF JUPITER THROUGH A TELESCOPE ON JANUARY 7, 1610?
WHAT CAN BE CLASSIFIED (USING THE HERTZSPRUNG-RUSSELL DIAGRAM) AS WHITE DWARFS, MAIN SEQUENCE, SUBGIANTS, GIANTS, BRIGHT GIANTS, SUPERGIANTS?
WHAT IS A RED GIANT?
WILHELM BEER AND JOHAN VON MADLER FIRST GOOD MAP WHERE 1830?
Name Pluto’s moon?
WHAT IS ALMOST HALFWAY THROUGH ITS 10-BILLION-YEAR LIFE, WILL EXPAND TO BECOME A RED GIANT AND THEN SHRINK TO BECOME A WHITE DWARF?
Who made the first un-tethered space walk of the 1990s?
On what planet is the largest known mountain in the solar system?
WHAT IS THE COMMON NAME FOR THE STAR SIRIUS?
Which is the largest planet in the solar system?
What heavenly bodies have astronomers named after Brahms, Beethoven, Bach, the four Beatles and Eric Clapton – among others
WHICH PLANET IS FURTHEST AWAY FROM THE SUN?
What is the only major planet of the solar system that takes its English name from Greek mythology?
Named for a Dutch astronomer, what is the region at the edge of the solar system that astronomers believe to be the source of all long-period and Halley-type comets?
Olympus Mons is the tallest known volcano and mountain in our solar system. Where is it located?
What is the term for the time that it takes an object to make one full orbit around the Sun, relative to the stars?
How many constellations is the night sky divided into?
HOW LONG DID HE TAKE TO COMPLETE ONE ORBIT OF THE EARTH?
NAME THE LARGEST PLANET IN OUR SOLAR SYSTEM?
WHICH PLANET HAS A PINK SKY?
HOW MANY TIMES THE EARTH’S WEIGHT IS THE WEIGHT OF THE SUN?
WHAT ‘MW’ IS ALSO KNOWN AS THE VIA LACTEA?
WHERE EXACTLY IS THE 89,000 FEET HIGH OLYMPUS MONS VOLCANO?
WHAT ‘C’ DID HALLEY PREDICT (IN 1704) WOULD RETURN?
HOW FAR IS IT FROM THE EARTH TO THE SUN IN MILES?
WHAT ‘S’ IS AN INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING THE ALTITUDE OF CELESTIAL BODIES?
IN 1965 NASA INVESTED OVER 4 MILLION DOLLARS DEVELOPING THE AG7 SPACE PEN, A PEN CAPABLE OF WRITING IN SPACE, HOWEVER NASA WERE LEFT WITH EGG ON THEIR FACE, WHEN THE RUSSIANS ANNOUNCED THAT THEIR SOLLUTION COST THEM A MERE FRACTION OF WHAT THE AMERICANS HAD INVESTED, HOW DID THEY DO IT SO ECONOMICALLY?
APPROXIMATELY HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE THE SUNS LIGHT TO REACH EARTH?
THE MARINERS COMPASS OR PYXIS IS WHAT?
WHICH SPACE SHUTTLE EXPLODED IN 1986?
ASTRONOMER JOSEPH-JEROME DE LALANDE WOULD EAT WHAT ON BREAD BUTTER?
WHICH IS THE BRIGHEST STAR VISIBLE FROM EARTH?
WHAT ‘O’ IS A BUILDING FOR STUDYING STARS?
WHAT IS THE DIAMETER OF JUPITER AT IT’S EQUATOR (IN KM)?
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