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The Sun isn’t the most common type of star in Milky Way. What kind is the most abundant?
- Red super giants
- Red dwarfs
- Blue giants
- Yellow dwarfs
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The change in a wave’s frequency when the source and observer are in motion relative to one another is known as what?
- Gamma rays absorption
- Parallax effect
- Space and time bend
- Doppler effect
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The Astronomical Unit (AU) is the average distance between two objects in our solar system. Which ones?
- The Earth and the Moon
- The Earth and Mars
- The Sun and the Oort cloud
- The Sun and the Earth
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NASA built originally six space shuttles. Which one never made a spaceflight?
- Enterprise
- Columbia
- Challenger
- Endeavour
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What was the name of the first man to set foot on the Moon?
- John Glenn
- Alan Shepard
- Neil Armstrong
- Buzz Aldrin
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What is the brightest star seen from Earth in the night sky?
- Alcyone (Taurus)
- Sirius (Canis Major)
- Alpha Centauri (Centaurus)
- Capella (Auriga)
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What country was the first to drop an object on the surface of the Moon?
- Japan
- Soviet Union
- United States
- China
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What is the nickname of Mars?
- The desert planet
- The crater planet
- The red planet
- The canal planet
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Which of these is not a galaxy classification by its shape?
- Round
- Elliptical
- Spiral
- Irregular
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The Milky Way, the galaxy where our Solar System is located, has a supermassive black hole. What is its name?
- El Gordo
- Sagittarius A
- The Black Widow
- Cassiopeia A
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In about 5 billion years our Milky Way is bound for collision with what other galaxy?
- Large Magellanic Cloud
- Small Magellanic Cloud
- Andromeda Galaxy
- El Sombrero Galaxy
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Ceres, the closest dwarf planet to the Sun, is located in the asteroid belt between what planets?
- The Earth and Mars
- Mars and Jupiter
- Jupiter and Saturn
- Saturn and Neptune
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Which is the most distant planet than can be seen with the naked eye?
- Saturn
- Neptune
- Jupiter
- Uranus
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Asteroids, like planets, can have moons of their own.
- True
- False
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The peculiar Witch Head Nebula is located in what constellation?
- Sagittarius
- Ursa Major
- Coma Berenices
- Eridanus
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