Space Science Qualification related questions

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