The Milky Way Quiz

What is the estimated number of stars in the Milky Way Galaxy?

• 200 billion

• 100 billion

• 300 billion

• 400 billion

How many light years does it take for light to travel from one edge of the Milky Way to the other?

• 100,000 light years

• 125,000 light years

• 50,000 light years

• 75,000 light years

What type of stars are found in the globular clusters of the Milky Way?

• Population Three stars

• Population Two stars

• Population Four stars

• Population One stars

What are the names of the two satellite galaxies that orbit around the Milky Way?

• Small Magellanic Cloud and Large Magellanic Cloud

• Orion Nebula and Crab Nebula

• Andromeda Galaxy and Triangulum Galaxy

• Alpha Centauri and Beta Centauri

What is the predicted name for the galaxy formed after the collision of Andromeda and the Milky Way?

• Milkydromeda

• Stellardromeda

• Andromilky

• Galactica

What is the speed at which stars outside of the bulge move around the galactic center?

• 300 kilometers per second

• 250 kilometers per second

• 200 kilometers per second

• 150 kilometers per second

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

Where can the oldest stars in the Milky Way be found?

• In the disk

• In the spiral arms

• In the bulge

• In the halo

What is the estimated number of stars that continue to form in the Milky Way per year?

• 1 to 2 stars

• 2 to 3 stars

• 4 to 5 stars

• 3 to 4 stars

How long ago did the formation of our solar system from a cloud of gas and dust occur?

• Less than 7 billion years ago

• Less than 5 billion years ago

• Less than 3 billion years ago

• Less than 1 billion years ago

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-6

What is the fate predicted for the Milky Way in several hundred billion years?

• It will become a black hole

• It will have all its stars die

• It will collide with another galaxy

• It will cease to exist