Space science trivia questions, with the answers.

What was the name of the American mission to land a man on the Moon?
A: Apollo project.

What was the name of the American space station?
A: Skylab.

Which country built the Saturn V rocket?
A: USA.

From which areas of space can there be no escape?
A: Black holes.

Who was the first man to walk on the Moon?
A: Neil Armstrong.

Which objects in space emit energy in pulses?
A: Pulsars.

What travels around the Sun at an average speed of 185 miles per second.
A: The earth.

Which is the second lightest element in the universe?
A: Helium.

How many moons does Neptune have?
A: Eight.

What is the name of the thousands of small bodies which orbit the Sun?
A: Asteroids.

What effect is red shift an example of?
A: Doppler effect.

How far does the Sun's gravitational influence extend?
A: About 1.5 light years.

What can contract to give birth to a star?
A: A nebula.

Proteus and Nereid are moons of which planet?
A: Neptune.

What is the Milky Way?
A: The local galaxy.

What is the name for the study of the structure of the universe?
A: Cosmology.

What units are used for measuring distances in the universe?
A: Light years.

What is another name for a shooting or falling star?
A: Meteor.

What is the Latin name for the North Star?
A: Polaris.

Scientists study the red shift to investigate which aspect of cosmology?
A: The expansion of the universe.

Which planet possesses the Galilean satellites?
A: Jupiter.

What is brighter than a hundred million suns?
A: A supernova.

Who developed the 'aperture synthesis' method of radio astronomy?
A: Martin Ryle.

Which planet was located only in 1930?
A: Pluto.

What is a parsec?
A: A unit of distance.

Saturn's ring has how many sections?
A: Three.

What was the name of two space probes launched in 1977 which sent back remarkable pictures of Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune?
A: Voyager I and II.

Which planet has one moon called Charon?
A: Pluto.

What are the clouds of interstellar dust, said to be the birthplace of stars?
A: Nebulae.

Which gas forms 30% of the Sun's mass?
A: Helium.

Which scientist first determined how stars make elements?
A: Fred Hoyle.

What is the astronomical unit equal to 32,616 light years?
A: Parsec.

What name is given to the explosive death of a star?
A: Supernova.

Which is the second largest planet in the solar system?
A: Saturn.

Which planet has been the focus of investigations for signs of life?
A: Mars.

In the general theory of relativity what causes space-time to be modified?
A: Mass.

Which space probes failed to find life on Mars?
A: Viking probes.

Which type of celestial object emits bursts of energy at regular intervals?
A: Pulsar.

Which was the last Apollo mission?
A: Apollo 17.

Which force is nothing more than the bending of space and time?
A: Gravitational force.

Which star is as bright as 23 Suns, and is orbited by the Pup?
A: Sirius.

What is the defining feature of a neutron star?
A: Great density.