Astronomy Test

  1. Developed by: Sarah Hastings

How much do you know about astronomy? Find out in this fun multiple choice quiz!

Question 1: How many official constellations are there?
88
66
110

Question 2: What is the brightest star in the night sky?
Polaris A
Sirius A
Vega A

Question 3: What does the "M" as in M1 (the Crab nebula) stand for?
May fleet
Messier
Mandatory

Question 4: How many Messier objects are there?
66
110
88

Question 5: What planet has one ring around it?
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus

Question 6: Where is the Kuipiter Belt?
Past the heliopause
Past Neptune's orbit
Past the termination shock

Question 7: How fast does light travel?
186,282.397 miles per second
186,341.936 miles per second
186,257.839 miles per second

Question 8: What does the satellite SOHO study?
Earth
The Sun
Saturn

Question 9: Where is the bow shock?
Past the orbit of Xylanthia
Past the heliopause
Past Proxima Centauri

Question 10: What arm of the Milky Way is the solar system in?
The Taurus arm
The Orion arm
The Perseus arm

Question 11: What planet takes the longest time to rotate on it's axis?
Uranus
Venus
Jupiter

Question 12: What is Camelarpardalis?
A giraffe
A camel
A bear

Question 13: Where is Eris?
The Oort cloud
The asteroid belt
The Kuipiter belt

Question 14: What constellation is M31 in?
Lyra
Perseus
Andromeda

Question 15: What is the closest star to Earth?
Sirius
Bellatrix
Proxima Centauri

Question 16: What probes are the farthest from the Sun? (Still operating probes.)
Apollo 1&6
Mariner 4&8
Voyagers 1&2

Question 17: Who was the first man in space?
Neil Armstrong
Yuri Gagarin
Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin

Question 18: M106 is a______ galaxy?
Irregular
Spiral
Elliptical

Question 19: A higher apparent magnitude means what?
A bigger star
A brighter star
A dimmer star

Question 20: The big dipper is a what?
Constellation
Asterism
Open cluster

SheKnows

quizzes und tests   quizzen en tests