Facts about space
1. What is the name of the largest planet in our solar system?
Answer: Jupiter
2. Which planet has the hottest surface temperature in our solar system?
Answer: Venus
3.What is the name of the first artificial satellite launched into space?
Answer: Sputnik 1
4. What is the term for a group of stars that form a recognizable pattern?
Answer: Constellation
5. What is the name of the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth?
Answer: John Glenn
6. What is the name of the spacecraft that carried the first humans to land on the Moon?
Answer: Apollo 11
7. What is the name of the large cloud of gas and dust that forms a new star?
Answer: Nebula
8. What is the name of the spacecraft that was launched in 1977 to explore the outer planets of our solar system?
Answer: Voyager 1
9. What is the name of the phenomenon where a black hole pulls in and destroys a nearby star?
Answer: Tidal disruption event
10. What is the name of the first privately-funded spacecraft to reach orbit?
Answer: SpaceShipOne
11. What is the term for the point in space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape it?
Answer: Black hole
12. Which planet in our solar system has the longest day?
Answer: Venus
13. What is the name of the galaxy that contains our solar system?
Answer: Milky Way
14. What is the name of the dwarf planet located beyond Neptune in our solar system?
Answer: Pluto
15. What is the name of the spacecraft that was launched in 1990 to study the universe from space?
Answer: Hubble Space Telescope
16. What is the term for the time it takes for a planet to make one complete orbit around the Sun?
Answer: Year
17. What is the term for the time it takes for a planet to make one complete rotation on its axis?
Answer: Day
18. What is the name of the first woman to travel to space?
Answer: Valentina Tereshkova
19. What is the name of the largest moon in our solar system?
Answer: Ganymede
20. What is the name of the asteroid belt located between Mars and Jupiter?
Answer: Main asteroid belt
21. What is the name of the first successful mission to land humans on the Moon?
Answer: Apollo 11
22. What is the term for the region of space beyond the orbit of Neptune where many comets originate?
Answer: Kuiper Belt
23.What is the name of the spacecraft that was launched in 2018 to study the Sun up close?
Answer: Parker Solar Probe
24. What is the name of the first American woman to travel to space?
Answer: Sally Ride
25.What is the name of the phenomenon where a star explodes and becomes extremely bright?
Answer: Supernova
26.What is the name of the spacecraft that was launched in 2004 to explore Mars?
Answer: Mars Exploration Rover
27. What is the name of the spacecraft that was launched in 2011 to study the dwarf planet Ceres?
Answer: Dawn
28. What is the name of the largest volcano in our solar system, located on Mars?
Answer: Olympus Mons
29. What is the name of the spacecraft that was launched in 2015 to study Pluto and its moons?
Answer: New Horizons
30. What is the name of the phenomenon where the Moon passes between the Sun and the Earth, blocking out the Sun’s light?
Answer: Solar eclipse