What is the term for the study of celestial objects outside Earth’s atmosphere?
a) Astronomy
b) Cosmology
c) Astrobiology
d) Astrophysics
Answer: a) Astronomy
Which of the following is NOT a planet in our solar system?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Alpha Centauri
Answer: d) Alpha Centauri
What is the closest star system to our solar system?
a) Alpha Centauri
b) Sirius
c) Proxima Centauri
d) Betelgeuse
Answer: c) Proxima Centauri
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
a) Andromeda Galaxy
b) Milky Way Galaxy
c) Sombrero Galaxy
d) Pinwheel Galaxy
Answer: b) Milky Way Galaxy
Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Answer: b) Mars
What is the term for a small, icy body that orbits the Sun?
a) Asteroid
b) Comet
c) Meteoroid
d) Dwarf planet
Answer: b) Comet
What is the name of the largest moon of Jupiter?
a) Europa
b) Ganymede
c) Io
d) Callisto
Answer: b) Ganymede
Which of the following is a characteristic of gas giants in our solar system?
a) They have solid surfaces.
b) They have rings.
c) They are rocky planets.
d) They are close to the Sun.
Answer: b) They have rings.
What is the name of the largest volcano in the solar system, located on Mars?
a) Mount Everest
b) Olympus Mons
c) Mauna Kea
d) Krakatoa
Answer: b) Olympus Mons
What is the name of the spacecraft that first landed humans on the Moon?
a) Voyager
b) Apollo
c) Hubble
d) Cassini
Answer: b) Apollo
What is the term for the point in a planet’s orbit where it is farthest from the Sun?
a) Perigee
b) Aphelion
c) Perihelion
d) Apogee
Answer: b) Aphelion
Which space agency successfully landed the Mars rover Curiosity on Mars in 2012?
a) NASA
b) ESA (European Space Agency)
c) Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency)
d) CNSA (China National Space Administration)
Answer: a) NASA
What is the name of the first artificial Earth satellite launched into space?
a) Sputnik 1
b) Hubble Space Telescope
c) Voyager 1
d) Skylab
Answer: a) Sputnik 1
What is the term for the process by which a star generates energy?
a) Nuclear fission
b) Nuclear fusion
c) Gravitational collapse
d) Supernova explosion
Answer: b) Nuclear fusion
What is the name of the region around a black hole where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape?
a) Event horizon
b) Singularity
c) Accretion disk
d) Supermassive region
Answer: a) Event horizon
What is the name of the theory that describes the origin of the universe as a rapid expansion from a hot, dense state?
a) String theory
b) Big Bang theory
c) Quantum theory
d) Black hole theory
Answer: b) Big Bang theory
Which of the following is a type of galaxy with a flat, disk-like shape and spiral arms?
a) Elliptical galaxy
b) Irregular galaxy
c) Spiral galaxy
d) Lenticular galaxy
Answer: c) Spiral galaxy
What is the name of the process by which a star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under gravity?
a) Supernova explosion
b) Red giant phase
c) Main sequence phase
d) Stellar death
Answer: a) Supernova explosion
What is the name of the first American space station launched into orbit in 1973?
a) Skylab
b) Mir
c) Salyut
d) International Space Station (ISS)
Answer: a) Skylab
Which planet has the most moons in our solar system?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Uranus
d) Neptune
Answer: a) Jupiter
What is the term for the sudden and rapid release of energy from the Sun’s surface?
a) Solar eclipse
b) Solar flare
c) Solar wind
d) Solar prominence
Answer: b) Solar flare
Which spacecraft was the first to reach interstellar space, leaving the heliosphere in 2012?
a) Voyager 1
b) Pioneer 10
c) New Horizons
d) Juno
Answer: a) Voyager 1
What is the name of the theory that suggests the universe is expanding at an increasing rate?
a) Big Crunch theory
b) Steady State theory
c) Inflationary theory
d) Dark energy theory
Answer: d) Dark energy theory
Which of the following is NOT a type of lunar eclipse?
a) Total lunar eclipse
b) Partial lunar eclipse
c) Annular lunar eclipse
d) Solar lunar eclipse
Answer: d) Solar lunar eclipse
What is the name of the first artificial satellite of Mars launched by India in 2013?
a) Viking 1
b) Mars Express
c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
d) MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission)
Answer: c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
Which of the following is a phenomenon where a small part of the Moon’s surface is briefly visible during a total solar eclipse?
a) Solar corona
b) Diamond ring effect
c) Baily’s beads
d) Lunar libration
Answer: c) Baily’s beads
What is the term for the study of the properties and behavior of matter and energy at very high temperatures and densities?
a) Cosmology
b) Astrophysics
c) Particle physics
d) Plasma physics
Answer: d) Plasma physics
What is the name of the mission launched by NASA to study the Sun’s atmosphere, launched in 2018?
a) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
b) Solar Orbiter
c) Parker Solar Probe
d) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Answer: c) Parker Solar Probe
Which spacecraft made the first successful landing on the surface of Venus in 1970?
a) Mariner 9
b) Venera 7
c) Cassini-Huygens
d) Galileo
Answer: b) Venera 7
What is the term for the study of celestial objects outside Earth’s atmosphere?
a) Astronomy
b) Cosmology
c) Astrobiology
d) Astrophysics
Answer: a) Astronomy
Which of the following is NOT a planet in our solar system?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Alpha Centauri
Answer: d) Alpha Centauri
What is the closest star system to our solar system?
a) Alpha Centauri
b) Sirius
c) Proxima Centauri
d) Betelgeuse
Answer: c) Proxima Centauri
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
a) Andromeda Galaxy
b) Milky Way Galaxy
c) Sombrero Galaxy
d) Pinwheel Galaxy
Answer: b) Milky Way Galaxy
Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Answer: b) Mars
What is the term for a small, icy body that orbits the Sun?
a) Asteroid
b) Comet
c) Meteoroid
d) Dwarf planet
Answer: b) Comet
What is the name of the largest moon of Jupiter?
a) Europa
b) Ganymede
c) Io
d) Callisto
Answer: b) Ganymede
Which of the following is a characteristic of gas giants in our solar system?
a) They have solid surfaces.
b) They have rings.
c) They are rocky planets.
d) They are close to the Sun.
Answer: b) They have rings.
What is the name of the largest volcano in the solar system, located on Mars?
a) Mount Everest
b) Olympus Mons
c) Mauna Kea
d) Krakatoa
Answer: b) Olympus Mons
What is the name of the spacecraft that first landed humans on the Moon?
a) Voyager
b) Apollo
c) Hubble
d) Cassini
Answer: b) Apollo
What is the term for the point in a planet’s orbit where it is farthest from the Sun?
a) Perigee
b) Aphelion
c) Perihelion
d) Apogee
Answer: b) Aphelion
Which space agency successfully landed the Mars rover Curiosity on Mars in 2012?
a) NASA
b) ESA (European Space Agency)
c) Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency)
d) CNSA (China National Space Administration)
Answer: a) NASA
What is the name of the first artificial Earth satellite launched into space?
a) Sputnik 1
b) Hubble Space Telescope
c) Voyager 1
d) Skylab
Answer: a) Sputnik 1
What is the term for the process by which a star generates energy?
a) Nuclear fission
b) Nuclear fusion
c) Gravitational collapse
d) Supernova explosion
Answer: b) Nuclear fusion
What is the name of the region around a black hole where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape?
a) Event horizon
b) Singularity
c) Accretion disk
d) Supermassive region
Answer: a) Event horizon
What is the name of the theory that describes the origin of the universe as a rapid expansion from a hot, dense state?
a) String theory
b) Big Bang theory
c) Quantum theory
d) Black hole theory
Answer: b) Big Bang theory
Which of the following is a type of galaxy with a flat, disk-like shape and spiral arms?
a) Elliptical galaxy
b) Irregular galaxy
c) Spiral galaxy
d) Lenticular galaxy
Answer: c) Spiral galaxy
What is the name of the process by which a star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under gravity?
a) Supernova explosion
b) Red giant phase
c) Main sequence phase
d) Stellar death
Answer: a) Supernova explosion
What is the name of the first American space station launched into orbit in 1973?
a) Skylab
b) Mir
c) Salyut
d) International Space Station (ISS)
Answer: a) Skylab
Which planet has the most moons in our solar system?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Uranus
d) Neptune
Answer: a) Jupiter
What is the term for the sudden and rapid release of energy from the Sun’s surface?
a) Solar eclipse
b) Solar flare
c) Solar wind
d) Solar prominence
Answer: b) Solar flare
Which spacecraft was the first to reach interstellar space, leaving the heliosphere in 2012?
a) Voyager 1
b) Pioneer 10
c) New Horizons
d) Juno
Answer: a) Voyager 1
What is the name of the theory that suggests the universe is expanding at an increasing rate?
a) Big Crunch theory
b) Steady State theory
c) Inflationary theory
d) Dark energy theory
Answer: d) Dark energy theory
Which of the following is NOT a type of lunar eclipse?
a) Total lunar eclipse
b) Partial lunar eclipse
c) Annular lunar eclipse
d) Solar lunar eclipse
Answer: d) Solar lunar eclipse
What is the name of the first artificial satellite of Mars launched by India in 2013?
a) Viking 1
b) Mars Express
c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
d) MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission)
Answer: c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
Which of the following is a phenomenon where a small part of the Moon’s surface is briefly visible during a total solar eclipse?
a) Solar corona
b) Diamond ring effect
c) Baily’s beads
d) Lunar libration
Answer: c) Baily’s beads
What is the term for the study of the properties and behavior of matter and energy at very high temperatures and densities?
a) Cosmology
b) Astrophysics
c) Particle physics
d) Plasma physics
Answer: d) Plasma physics
What is the name of the mission launched by NASA to study the Sun’s atmosphere, launched in 2018?
a) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
b) Solar Orbiter
c) Parker Solar Probe
d) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Answer: c) Parker Solar Probe
Which spacecraft made the first successful landing on the surface of Venus in 1970?
a) Mariner 9
b) Venera 7
c) Cassini-Huygens
d) Galileo
Answer: b) Venera 7
What is the term for the study of celestial objects outside Earth’s atmosphere?
a) Astronomy
b) Cosmology
c) Astrobiology
d) Astrophysics
Answer: a) Astronomy
Which of the following is NOT a planet in our solar system?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Alpha Centauri
Answer: d) Alpha Centauri
What is the closest star system to our solar system?
a) Alpha Centauri
b) Sirius
c) Proxima Centauri
d) Betelgeuse
Answer: c) Proxima Centauri
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
a) Andromeda Galaxy
b) Milky Way Galaxy
c) Sombrero Galaxy
d) Pinwheel Galaxy
Answer: b) Milky Way Galaxy
Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Answer: b) Mars
What is the term for a small, icy body that orbits the Sun?
a) Asteroid
b) Comet
c) Meteoroid
d) Dwarf planet
Answer: b) Comet
What is the name of the largest moon of Jupiter?
a) Europa
b) Ganymede
c) Io
d) Callisto
Answer: b) Ganymede
Which of the following is a characteristic of gas giants in our solar system?
a) They have solid surfaces.
b) They have rings.
c) They are rocky planets.
d) They are close to the Sun.
Answer: b) They have rings.
What is the name of the largest volcano in the solar system, located on Mars?
a) Mount Everest
b) Olympus Mons
c) Mauna Kea
d) Krakatoa
Answer: b) Olympus Mons
What is the name of the spacecraft that first landed humans on the Moon?
a) Voyager
b) Apollo
c) Hubble
d) Cassini
Answer: b) Apollo
What is the term for the point in a planet’s orbit where it is farthest from the Sun?
a) Perigee
b) Aphelion
c) Perihelion
d) Apogee
Answer: b) Aphelion
Which space agency successfully landed the Mars rover Curiosity on Mars in 2012?
a) NASA
b) ESA (European Space Agency)
c) Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency)
d) CNSA (China National Space Administration)
Answer: a) NASA
What is the name of the first artificial Earth satellite launched into space?
a) Sputnik 1
b) Hubble Space Telescope
c) Voyager 1
d) Skylab
Answer: a) Sputnik 1
What is the term for the process by which a star generates energy?
a) Nuclear fission
b) Nuclear fusion
c) Gravitational collapse
d) Supernova explosion
Answer: b) Nuclear fusion
What is the name of the region around a black hole where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape?
a) Event horizon
b) Singularity
c) Accretion disk
d) Supermassive region
Answer: a) Event horizon
What is the name of the theory that describes the origin of the universe as a rapid expansion from a hot, dense state?
a) String theory
b) Big Bang theory
c) Quantum theory
d) Black hole theory
Answer: b) Big Bang theory
Which of the following is a type of galaxy with a flat, disk-like shape and spiral arms?
a) Elliptical galaxy
b) Irregular galaxy
c) Spiral galaxy
d) Lenticular galaxy
Answer: c) Spiral galaxy
What is the name of the process by which a star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under gravity?
a) Supernova explosion
b) Red giant phase
c) Main sequence phase
d) Stellar death
Answer: a) Supernova explosion
What is the name of the first American space station launched into orbit in 1973?
a) Skylab
b) Mir
c) Salyut
d) International Space Station (ISS)
Answer: a) Skylab
Which planet has the most moons in our solar system?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Uranus
d) Neptune
Answer: a) Jupiter
What is the term for the sudden and rapid release of energy from the Sun’s surface?
a) Solar eclipse
b) Solar flare
c) Solar wind
d) Solar prominence
Answer: b) Solar flare
Which spacecraft was the first to reach interstellar space, leaving the heliosphere in 2012?
a) Voyager 1
b) Pioneer 10
c) New Horizons
d) Juno
Answer: a) Voyager 1
What is the name of the theory that suggests the universe is expanding at an increasing rate?
a) Big Crunch theory
b) Steady State theory
c) Inflationary theory
d) Dark energy theory
Answer: d) Dark energy theory
Which of the following is NOT a type of lunar eclipse?
a) Total lunar eclipse
b) Partial lunar eclipse
c) Annular lunar eclipse
d) Solar lunar eclipse
Answer: d) Solar lunar eclipse
What is the name of the first artificial satellite of Mars launched by India in 2013?
a) Viking 1
b) Mars Express
c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
d) MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission)
Answer: c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
Which of the following is a phenomenon where a small part of the Moon’s surface is briefly visible during a total solar eclipse?
a) Solar corona
b) Diamond ring effect
c) Baily’s beads
d) Lunar libration
Answer: c) Baily’s beads
What is the term for the study of the properties and behavior of matter and energy at very high temperatures and densities?
a) Cosmology
b) Astrophysics
c) Particle physics
d) Plasma physics
Answer: d) Plasma physics
What is the name of the mission launched by NASA to study the Sun’s atmosphere, launched in 2018?
a) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
b) Solar Orbiter
c) Parker Solar Probe
d) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Answer: c) Parker Solar Probe
Which spacecraft made the first successful landing on the surface of Venus in 1970?
a) Mariner 9
b) Venera 7
c) Cassini-Huygens
d) Galileo
Answer: b) Venera 7
What is the term for the study of celestial objects outside Earth’s atmosphere?
a) Astronomy
b) Cosmology
c) Astrobiology
d) Astrophysics
Answer: a) Astronomy
Which of the following is NOT a planet in our solar system?
a) Earth
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Alpha Centauri
Answer: d) Alpha Centauri
What is the closest star system to our solar system?
a) Alpha Centauri
b) Sirius
c) Proxima Centauri
d) Betelgeuse
Answer: c) Proxima Centauri
What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
a) Andromeda Galaxy
b) Milky Way Galaxy
c) Sombrero Galaxy
d) Pinwheel Galaxy
Answer: b) Milky Way Galaxy
Which planet is known as the “Red Planet”?
a) Venus
b) Mars
c) Jupiter
d) Saturn
Answer: b) Mars
What is the term for a small, icy body that orbits the Sun?
a) Asteroid
b) Comet
c) Meteoroid
d) Dwarf planet
Answer: b) Comet
What is the name of the largest moon of Jupiter?
a) Europa
b) Ganymede
c) Io
d) Callisto
Answer: b) Ganymede
Which of the following is a characteristic of gas giants in our solar system?
a) They have solid surfaces.
b) They have rings.
c) They are rocky planets.
d) They are close to the Sun.
Answer: b) They have rings.
What is the name of the largest volcano in the solar system, located on Mars?
a) Mount Everest
b) Olympus Mons
c) Mauna Kea
d) Krakatoa
Answer: b) Olympus Mons
What is the name of the spacecraft that first landed humans on the Moon?
a) Voyager
b) Apollo
c) Hubble
d) Cassini
Answer: b) Apollo
What is the term for the point in a planet’s orbit where it is farthest from the Sun?
a) Perigee
b) Aphelion
c) Perihelion
d) Apogee
Answer: b) Aphelion
Which space agency successfully landed the Mars rover Curiosity on Mars in 2012?
a) NASA
b) ESA (European Space Agency)
c) Roscosmos (Russian Space Agency)
d) CNSA (China National Space Administration)
Answer: a) NASA
What is the name of the first artificial Earth satellite launched into space?
a) Sputnik 1
b) Hubble Space Telescope
c) Voyager 1
d) Skylab
Answer: a) Sputnik 1
What is the term for the process by which a star generates energy?
a) Nuclear fission
b) Nuclear fusion
c) Gravitational collapse
d) Supernova explosion
Answer: b) Nuclear fusion
What is the name of the region around a black hole where gravity is so strong that nothing can escape?
a) Event horizon
b) Singularity
c) Accretion disk
d) Supermassive region
Answer: a) Event horizon
What is the name of the theory that describes the origin of the universe as a rapid expansion from a hot, dense state?
a) String theory
b) Big Bang theory
c) Quantum theory
d) Black hole theory
Answer: b) Big Bang theory
Which of the following is a type of galaxy with a flat, disk-like shape and spiral arms?
a) Elliptical galaxy
b) Irregular galaxy
c) Spiral galaxy
d) Lenticular galaxy
Answer: c) Spiral galaxy
What is the name of the process by which a star exhausts its nuclear fuel and collapses under gravity?
a) Supernova explosion
b) Red giant phase
c) Main sequence phase
d) Stellar death
Answer: a) Supernova explosion
What is the name of the first American space station launched into orbit in 1973?
a) Skylab
b) Mir
c) Salyut
d) International Space Station (ISS)
Answer: a) Skylab
Which planet has the most moons in our solar system?
a) Jupiter
b) Saturn
c) Uranus
d) Neptune
Answer: a) Jupiter
What is the term for the sudden and rapid release of energy from the Sun’s surface?
a) Solar eclipse
b) Solar flare
c) Solar wind
d) Solar prominence
Answer: b) Solar flare
Which spacecraft was the first to reach interstellar space, leaving the heliosphere in 2012?
a) Voyager 1
b) Pioneer 10
c) New Horizons
d) Juno
Answer: a) Voyager 1
What is the name of the theory that suggests the universe is expanding at an increasing rate?
a) Big Crunch theory
b) Steady State theory
c) Inflationary theory
d) Dark energy theory
Answer: d) Dark energy theory
Which of the following is NOT a type of lunar eclipse?
a) Total lunar eclipse
b) Partial lunar eclipse
c) Annular lunar eclipse
d) Solar lunar eclipse
Answer: d) Solar lunar eclipse
What is the name of the first artificial satellite of Mars launched by India in 2013?
a) Viking 1
b) Mars Express
c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
d) MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission)
Answer: c) Mangalyaan (Mars Orbiter Mission)
Which of the following is a phenomenon where a small part of the Moon’s surface is briefly visible during a total solar eclipse?
a) Solar corona
b) Diamond ring effect
c) Baily’s beads
d) Lunar libration
Answer: c) Baily’s beads
What is the term for the study of the properties and behavior of matter and energy at very high temperatures and densities?
a) Cosmology
b) Astrophysics
c) Particle physics
d) Plasma physics
Answer: d) Plasma physics
What is the name of the mission launched by NASA to study the Sun’s atmosphere, launched in 2018?
a) Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO)
b) Solar Orbiter
c) Parker Solar Probe
d) Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO)
Answer: c) Parker Solar Probe
Which spacecraft made the first successful landing on the surface of Venus in 1970?
a) Mariner 9
b) Venera 7
c) Cassini-Huygens
d) Galileo
Answer: b) Venera 7