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