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Space and Astronomy - hard

test your useless knowledge - only for true space nerds
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Name of the closest major Galaxy
Andromeda
Time until collision with this Galaxy in billion years
4.5
Name of the nearest star besides the Sun
Alpha Centauri A
Name of the Belt between Earth and Mars
Asteroid Belt
biggest Object in that Region
Ceres
Name of the Asteroid Belt beyond Neptune
Kuiper Belt
biggest Moon in the Solar System
Ganyemde
your Distance to the Sun in million km
149 million km
biggest Planet
Jupiter
first Country to send a man into Space
Soviet Union
biggest Dwarf Planet by size
Pluto
biggest Dwarf Planet by mass
Eris
first Letter of the Planets sorted by distance from the sun
MVEMJSUN
Countries that have had three+ citizens visit Space
USA
Russia
Germany
Japan
China
Italy
France
Canada
Neptunes biggest Moon
Triton
Smallest Planet
Mercury
Saturns biggest Moon
Titan
Uranus' biggest Moon
Titania
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Jupiters 2nd biggest Moon
Callisto
one of Mars' Moons
Deimos or Phobos
Plutos biggest Moon
Charon
Name one more Moon bigger than ours that hasn't been named yet
Io
3rd brightest Object in the sky
Venus
Hottest Planet
brightest Star in the nightsky
Sirius A
Name of the Cloud at the edge of the Solar System
Oort's cloud
what type of Planet is Saturn
Gas Giant
what type of Planet is Mercury
Terrestrial
what type of Planet is Neptune
Ice Giant
What a planet is called if it's outside the Solar System
Exoplanet
most luminous phenomenon in the known Univers
Quasar
burst of light waves that could end most Life on Earth
Gamma Ray Burst
He discovered Relativity
Albert Einstein
He formulated the law of Gravity and planetary Motion
Sir Isaac Newton
He discovered the phases of Venus and Jupiters big Moons
Galileo Galilei
He discovered that Planets move in Elliptical Orbits around the Sun
Johannes Kepler
He proved the Heliocentric Model (Sun in the center, not Earth)
Nicolaus Copernicus
Distance to the Moon in km
384,400
Speed of Electromagnetic Waves in km/s
300,000
This causes Seasons on Earth
Tilted Axis
Degrees of above's answer
23.5
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Level 77
Jun 10, 2020
"Name another moon that hasn't been named yet" is rather confusing. How can you name something that hasn't been given a name yet? ;) It would be better to rephrase the question to "Name another moon that hasn't been mentioned in this quiz yet."
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Level 56
Jan 27, 2021
the main asteroid belt is between mars and jupiter. the one by earth is near earth asteroids