Galaxies and the Universe Quiz

What is the force that holds a galaxy together?

• Nebulae

• Stars

• Gravity

• Spiral arms

What are clouds of gas and dust where stars are born called?

• Black hole

• Nebulae

• Local Group

• Magellanic Clouds

What is the name of the Galaxy in which our solar system is located?

• Andromeda

• Magellanic Clouds

• Milky Way

• Galactic Halo

Where are many old stars and globular clusters located in a galaxy?

• Spiral arms

• Galactic Halo

• Nebulae

• Galactic Bulge

What was discovered by plotting the position of globular clusters?

• The center of our Galaxy

• The nearest major galaxy

• The spiral arms

• The density wave

What is a large collection of stellar and interstellar matter called?

• Local Group

• Galaxy

• Black hole

• Cepheid variable stars

What are the main visible components of a galaxy?

• Stars

• Nebulae

• Black holes

• Gravitational lensing

Our Galaxy is part of which smaller cluster?

• Magellanic Clouds

• Local Group

• Andromeda

• Galactic Disk

What is believed to be at the center of our Galaxy?

• Spiral arms

• Black hole

• Nebulae

• Magellanic Clouds

What are the Magellanic Clouds?

• A type of nebula

• A pair of small irregular galaxies that orbit our own Galaxy

• The center of our Galaxy

• A type of star