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- Hard Space Trivia
- Allen Lam
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- Copyright 1997, Softdisk Publishing
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- Asteroids
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- Which constellation means "Little Horse"?
- Equuleus
- Eridanus
- Cetus
- Leo
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- The North Star is about how far from earth?
- 300 light-years
- 4.3 light-years
- 600 light-years
- 12 light-years
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- Which of the following constellation names does not refer to an animal?
- Eridanus
- Equuleus
- Capricornus
- Cancer
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- How many light-years in a parsec?
- 3.26 light-years
- 7.26 light-years
- 1.26 light-years
- 5.26 light-years
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- The constellation Cetus refers to which animal?
- Whale
- Horse
- Snake
- Bear
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- How many kilometers in an astronomical unit?
- 149,600,000 km
- 149,600 km
- 149.6 km
- 149,600,000,000 km
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- The star that is often referred to as the North Star is called what?
- Polaris
- Vega
- Andromeda
- Alpha Centauri
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- The constellation Libra means what?
- Scales
- Snake
- Scorpion
- Lion
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- Jupiter is how many times larger in volume than Earth?
- 1400 times
- 9 times
- 45 times
- 520 times
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- Which was the first space probe to study the planet Mercury?
- Mariner 10
- Voyage 2
- Explorer 49
- Sputnik 1
- Saturn 5
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- Venus, the hottest planet, has a surface temperature of...
- 462 degrees Celsius
- 853 degrees Celsius
- 120 degrees Celsius
- 1923 degrees Celsius
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- How many years does it take for Pluto to go around the sun?
- 248 years
- 5 year
- 27 years
- 123 years
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- The name of Pluto's only moon is what?
- Charon
- Zeus
- Callisto
- Europa
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- Jupiter's atmosphere is mainly what?
- Helium
- Methane
- Oxygen
- Nitrogen
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- Cassini's Division refers to what?
- The gap between the A and B rings of Saturn
- The asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter
- The boundary between our solar system and interstellar space
- A big canal on Mars
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- The boundary between our solar system and interstellar space is called what?
- Heliopause
- Cassini Division
- Kepler's boundary
- Ptolemaic system
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- About how old is our sun?
- 5 billion years
- 100 million years
- 100 billion years
- 5 million years
- 500 thousand years
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- The universe came into being about how long ago?
- 7 to 20 billion years ago
- 7000 to 20,000 billion years ago
- 7 to 20 million years ago
- 7 to 20 thousand years ago
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- Oceanus and Procellarum are what?
- The main "seas" of our moon
- The rings of Saturn
- The moons of Jupiter
- Radiation belts
- Comets
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- Tycho and Copernicus are what?
- Craters on our moon
- The moons of Uranus
- Comets
- Radiation belts
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- The black-hole concept was developed by which astronomer?
- Karl Schwarzschild
- Edwin Hubble
- Thomas Gold
- Ejnar Hertzsprung
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- The largest array of radio telescopes called VLA (Very Large Array) is located where?
- New Mexico
- Arizona
- California
- Alaska
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- Which astronomer proved that comets were celestial bodies?
- Tycho Brahe
- Karl Schwarzschild
- Edwin Hubble
- Thomas Gold
- Ejnar Hertzsprung
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- Baily's Beads phenomenon is associated with which cosmic event?
- Total eclipse of the sun
- Supernova of stars
- Meteor showers
- Sun flares
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- The average distance of the moon from the earth is what?
- 239000 miles
- 634000 miles
- 21000 miles
- 104000 miles
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- Which theory on the formation of the moon is considered to be most probable?
- Formation by planetesimal impact
- Formation by fission from earth
- Formation in orbit near earth
- Formation far from earth
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- The far side of the moon was first revealed by Lunik III in what year?
- 1959
- 1949
- 1969
- 1979
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- Who was the first woman in space?
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Sally Ride
- Guion Bluford
- Amelia Earhart
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- On its 34,981st orbit, the U.S. Skylab fell to earth in which year?
- 1979
- 1989
- 1969
- 1959
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- The temperature at the center of the sun is about...
- 29 million degrees Fahrenheit
- 9 billion degrees Fahrenheit
- 782 million degrees Fahrenheit
- 43 thousand degrees Fahrenheit
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- Our sun is mostly (about 71 percent) composed of this element.
- Hydrogen
- Helium
- Nitrogen
- Oxygen
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- Our sun is in what stage of its life cycle?
- middle
- beginning
- end
- none, the sun will never die out
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- The sun has been around for how many years?
- 4.5 billion years
- 4.5 million years
- 450 thousand years
- 450 million years
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- The constellation Cygnus means what?
- Swan
- Dragon
- Bear
- Scorpion
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- In astronomy, SNAP stands for what?
- Systems for Nuclear Auxiliary Power
- Sun Nucleus After Perigee
- Saturn-Neptune Astral Plane
- Space's New Astronaut Program
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- A spectro-heliograph is used for what?
- To photograph the sun
- To determine the amount of helium in a star
- To detect the composition of a star
- To determine the speed of a meteor
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- Which astronomer invented the spectro-heliograph?
- George Hale
- Edward Pickering
- Neil Armstrong
- Sir Joseph Norman Lockyer
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- In astronomy, Magellanic Clouds are what?
- Galaxies
- Sun spots
- Asteroids
- Rradiation belts
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- Supergiant stars can have diameters that are this many times larger than our sun's.
- 400 times
- 900 times
- 40 times
- 4 thousand times
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- In astronomy, Frauhofer lines are what?
- Dark lines in the absorption spectrum of the sun
- The path traveled by comets
- The dark gap in Saturn's rings
- The trail left by the path of Jupiter's red spot
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