Statistics for Astronomy & Space

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Gravity so strong that no light can escape	Black hole	95%
Earth's natural satellite	Moon	95%
A shooting star entering the earth's atmosphere	Meteor	85%
Nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way	Andromeda	81%
Force of matter attraction	Gravity	81%
Photo of thousands of galaxies, taken by this telescope	Hubble Space Telescope	79%
Cloud where stars are born	Nebula	71%
We are all made of ____ _____.	Star stuff	60%
July 1969: "The _____ has landed"	Eagle	58%
Black hole's point of no return	Event horizon	53%
Human time capsule sent to extraterrestrials	Voyager	38%
"The Big Dipper" or "The Great Bear"	Ursa Major	32%
Location of the highest observatory in the world	Atacama Desert, Chile	19%
"Seven Sisters"	Pleiades	19%
Three celestial bodies in a straight line	Syzygy	6%