Astronomy General Knowledge Quiz #1

Can you answer these questions that relate to star gazing?
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What is Jupiter's "Great Red Spot"?
A Storm
What is believed to be at the center of the galaxy?
Supermassive Blackhole
Which planet in the solar system is the hottest?
Venus
What metal causes Mars' soil to be red?
Iron
What man-made object has traveled farthest from Earth?
Voyager 1
Because Venus has no tilt, what annual changes does it not experience?
Seasons
What is the largest moon in the solar system?
Ganymede
Other than the Sun, what is the closest star to Earth?
Proxima Centauri
The amount of time the Sun takes to revolve around the center of the Milky Way is called what?
A Cosmic Year
What type of star has the strongest magnetism?
Neutron Star
In Earth days, how long is Mercury's year?
88 Days
Located on Mars, what is the name of the largest volcano in the solar system?
Olympus Mons
95% of matter is invisible. What is this type of matter called?
Dark Matter
The pull of the Moon and Sun on the Earth causes what effect?
Tides
What is the term for the second full moon in the same calendar month?
Blue Moon
How many years pass between appearances of Halley's Comet?
76 years
What planet in our solar system has the most moons?
Jupiter
What element makes up most of the Sun?
Hydrogen
What astronomer discovered that planetary orbits are elliptical?
Johannes Kepler
What Soviet creation was the first man-made object to reach the Moon?
Luna 2 (It crashed.)
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Level 27
May 1, 2016
?????

I typed 88 days for Mercury but didn't come up!?!?!?!

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Level 40
May 3, 2016
Yeah same here, I think you have to capitalize "Days" even though that makes no sense.
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Level 60
May 4, 2016
88 has been fixed. Capitalization & punctuation are never required on JetPunk.
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Level 60
May 30, 2016
I'm sorry but you must have typed something other than "88". "88" definitely works.
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Level 15
Aug 8, 2016
I agree, great quiz, but concerning the 88 issue, maybe its just a glitch in the system or something like that, as it didn't work for me either.
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Level 86
Oct 24, 2016
The time for the Sun's orbit around the Milky Way is more commonly called a galactic year.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galactic_year

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Level 50
Oct 29, 2017
Accept magnetar for neutron star? It's more accurate in this case
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Level 63
Feb 18, 2018
I have to agree with both Jlf and Ryan 6:

A galactic year needs to be an acceptable answer for the name of the sun's revolution around the galactic center. The term is far more common than 'Cosmic Year.' I have no idea how you wound up making the less common usage the ONLY acceptable one.

And magnetar should be acceptable for the magnetic question. I know that 'magnetar' is right in the name, BUT that is the most common name for the very specific type of neutron star that results in the magnetic thing in the universe - magnets so strong that they would rip the very fabric of reality apart and destroy our entire planet if were were too close.

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Level 69
Jul 26, 2019
Dark Matter only accounts for 27% of the universe. I think you are adding dark matter and energy together as together they account for 95%; however, dark matter on its own is not 95%, and thus the question is erroneous.
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Level 57
Feb 25, 2022
Recent discoveries put Jupiter's moon count at 79 and Saturn at 82, making Saturn the planet with the most.
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Level 18
Mar 19, 2024
SATURN HAS MORE MOONS!!!!11