Statistics for Space A-Z

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This quiz has been taken 68 times
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The average score is 17 of 26

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Hint	Description	Answer	% Correct
A	The study of celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole	Astronomy	98%
B	The leading explanation for how the universe began	Big Bang Theory	98%
J	Fifth planet from the sun	Jupiter	96%
E	The big, blue planet	Earth	94%
O	The path of a planet, satellite, spaceship, etc., around a celestial body	Orbit	90%
H	The telescope launched into orbit around the earth in 1990	Hubble Telescope	84%
L	Related to the moon	Lunar	82%
R	What Saturn is famous for having	Rings	82%
S	The sun together with all the planets and other bodies that revolve around it	Solar System	80%
G	A large system of stars isolated from similar systems by space	Galaxy	78%
T	An optical instrument for making distant objects appear larger and therefore nearer	Telescope	76%
N	A cloud of interstellar gas and dust	Nebula	75%
Y	The time in which any planet completes a revolution round the sun	Year	75%
D	A form of matter invisible to electromagnetic radiation	Dark Matter	73%
X	A form of electromagnetic radiation, similar to light but of shorter wavelength	X-ray	67%
U	The totality of objects and phenomena throughout space; the cosmos; macrocosm	Universe	65%
V	A space entirely devoid of matter	Vacuum / Void	65%
W	A theoretical passageway in space between a black hole and a white hole	Wormhole	61%
I	Situated or occurring between the stars	Interstellar	55%
Q	The most distant and most luminous objects in the universe	Quasars	53%
C	Pertaining to the sky or visible heaven, or to the universe beyond the earth’s atmosphere	Celestial	47%
K	A disk-shaped region on the edge of the solar system that contains masses of ice and icy rock	Kuiper belt	47%
Z	An imaginary belt of the heavens which contains twelve constellations	Zodiac	35%
F	An informal name for meteor	Falling Star	27%
P	The shadow cast by the earth or moon over an area experiencing a partial eclipse	Penumbra	27%
M	Any of the small bodies, often remnants of comets, traveling through space	Meteoroid	18%