Statistics for Astronomy Quiz

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Name of our galaxy	Milky Way	99%
It was demoted to dwarf planet status in 2006	Pluto	96%
Cosmic expansion that happened 13.8 billion years ago	The Big Bang	91%
Place with such high gravity that not even light can escape	Black Hole	90%
299,792,458 meters per second	Speed of Light	86%
Space telescope launched in 1990	Hubble	82%
Explosion of a large star	Supernova	79%
Name for a "shooting star" that has entered the atmosphere	Meteor	75%
Comet that passes nearby every 76 years	Halley's Comet	74%
Nearest major galaxy to ours	Andromeda	72%
It can be found between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter	{Asteroid} Belt	70%
Element that makes Mars appear red	Iron	64%
Shape of our galaxy	Spiral	64%
Nearest star-system to the sun	Alpha {Centauri}	61%
Massive storm on Jupiter	{Great} {Red} Spot	58%
Interstellar dust cloud that can give birth to stars	Nebula	53%
Part of the moon where Apollo 11 landed	Sea of {Tranquility}	46%
Brightest star in the night sky	Sirius	41%
Densest type of star	Neutron Star	37%
Person who first described the elliptical orbits of the planets	Johannes Kepler	25%