Space

What is the diameter of the earth?

• 7,926miles

• 5,783miles

• 9,418miles

• 4,734miles

Light from the center of the Milky Way takes _________to reach earth.

• 26,895.

  years

• 27,345

  years

• 26,000. years

• 28,621

  years

Some stars are in groups called________.

• Constellations

• Galaxies

• Nebulae

• Clusters

The Orion Constellation is in which sky?

• Southern Sky

• Northern Sky

These chunks of rock and ice are remains of material left behind when the solar system formed. What are they?

• Comets

• Asteroids

• Planets

These are almost-round bodies orbit the Sun, but are too small to be considered as planets. What are they?

• Stars

• Dwarf planets

• Black Hole

The Sun is one of about _________that make up the Milky Way.

• 200 billion years

• 300 billion years

• 100 billion years

• 400 billion years

The age of the Milky Way is ___________.

• 13.7 billion years

• 13.1 billion years

• 13.4 billion years

• 13.2 billion

  years

NASA's five space shuttles made ____trips to space between 1981 and 2011.

• 200

• 135

• 150

• 110

The ISS (International Space Station) makes 16 trips Around Earth in 24 hours, which means that astronauts on the station see ____sunrises a day.

• 17

• 14

• 16

• 15