Best Astronomy Quiz For Space Addicts

The Iroquois considered which star cluster, in the constellation Taurus, described seven dancing boys?

Trapezium

The Pleiades

The Great Globular Cluster

Hyades

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George H.W. Bush, in his speech acquiring the presidential nomination in 1988, led to volunteer and service organizations as "a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky." Are all the points of ligh

Yes

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If you have seen the animated film "Shrek", you'll know the answer to this one! The stellar makeup is most like what?

A rose.

A waffle.

A swamp.

An onion.

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After the Sun, the nearest star to us is Proxima Centauri, which is just a hop, skip and a jump across infinite space. How big is the hop, skip, and jump?

4.2 light years

200 light years

200 earth years

2.1 light years

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In 1964, well after theorists had first introduced its survival, the cosmic microwave background was discovered by two astronomers in Holmdel, New Jersey. Their names were Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, and only fourteen years later they would be Nobel l

A scheduling mishap meant that there were 13 unused hours of telescope time, and they were just fooling around.

They were trying to track down the persistent noise in their new, extraordinarily sensitive radio antenna.

They were looking for it after a tip-off from theorists at Princeton University.

They were looking for residual background from a supernova, and found residual background from something much, much bigger.

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In 2014, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy issued a report called "A Dance of Black Holes". What dramatic feature was found?

A pair of supermassive black holes orbiting each other.

A grouping of 8 black holes in the shape of a line dance.

An unusually bright center of a galaxy which is being torn apart by a black hole.

A tidal disruption event was observed in the Orion Nebula

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If you're skywatching, you've probably observed this bright star, the red supergiant Betelgeuse. In what constellation does it occur?

Orion

Scorpio

Big Dipper

Andromeda

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In the Star Wars saga, Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine had two suns. Even though we're used to a single sun here on Earth, there are planetary systems with multiple suns that have been mapped. In 2012, Kepler-64b was observed to have how many sun

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The cosmic microwave background is sometimes mentioned as a "relic radiation" light leftover from a truly ancient time. But it isn't a relic of the universe's first moments, of the hot plasma posited by theorists; instead, it's thought to come from about

Neutral hydrogen and helium atoms formed.

Light atomic nuclei, like helium and lithium, formed.

Matter began coalescing into stars.

The first stars ignited.

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A cosmic microwave background is an unusual event: light, all at almost the same energy, fills the universe, coming from every direction. As strange as it may seem, it was predicted before it was found, in a landmark 1948 paper. What then-controversial th

Black Hole Theory

Big Bang Theory

Steady-State Theory

Grand Unified Theory

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The Iroquois considered which star cluster, in the constellation Taurus, described seven dancing boys?

George H.W. Bush, in his speech acquiring the presidential nomination in 1988, led to volunteer and service organizations as "a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky." Are all the points of ligh

If you have seen the animated film "Shrek", you'll know the answer to this one! The stellar makeup is most like what?

After the Sun, the nearest star to us is Proxima Centauri, which is just a hop, skip and a jump across infinite space. How big is the hop, skip, and jump?

In 1964, well after theorists had first introduced its survival, the cosmic microwave background was discovered by two astronomers in Holmdel, New Jersey. Their names were Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson, and only fourteen years later they would be Nobel l

In 2014, the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy issued a report called "A Dance of Black Holes". What dramatic feature was found?

If you're skywatching, you've probably observed this bright star, the red supergiant Betelgeuse. In what constellation does it occur?

In the Star Wars saga, Luke Skywalker's home planet of Tatooine had two suns. Even though we're used to a single sun here on Earth, there are planetary systems with multiple suns that have been mapped. In 2012, Kepler-64b was observed to have how many sun

The cosmic microwave background is sometimes mentioned as a "relic radiation" light leftover from a truly ancient time. But it isn't a relic of the universe's first moments, of the hot plasma posited by theorists; instead, it's thought to come from about

A cosmic microwave background is an unusual event: light, all at almost the same energy, fills the universe, coming from every direction. As strange as it may seem, it was predicted before it was found, in a landmark 1948 paper. What then-controversial th

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