The Ultimate Quiz to Leave You Starry-Eyed
The Ultimate Quiz to Leave You Starry-Eyed
Can you get a gold star on this celestial quiz?
Can you get a gold star on this celestial quiz?
Stars are celestial objects that have fascinated us from the beginning of time. From folklore to science, there’s no field where this part of our cosmic neighborhood has not played an enormous role in helping us understand how our world and the solar system works. But how much do you really know about these bright balls of plasma? This quiz will be illuminating indeed if you’re up to the challenge. Meanwhile, we’re here singing, “how we wonder how you’ll score”.
The closest star to Earth is the ___.
Stars literally twinkle.
The sun is a 4.5 billion-year-old yellow ____ star.
You can only see about ___ stars on a very dark night with the naked eye from any given place on Earth.
Not all, but most stars travel the galaxy with companions or in clusters.
When you look at a star in space, you are seeing how…
The more gigantic a star, the _____ is its lifespan.
Stars can die.
The ____ star in our night sky is called Sirius.
The most ____ type of star is a red dwarf.
Most of the stars you see in the night sky are bigger and brighter than the sun.
Stars have different colors depending on their temperature. The hottest stars are ___, and the coolest stars are ___.
Once a star dies, the dead star is converted into a…
Betelgeuse, the red star in the constellation of Orion, is about 20 times ___ than the sun.
Stars are huge exploding balls of gases, mainly _____.
___-type blue stars are the biggest and hottest in the universe and are known as "blue giants”.
A supernova is a powerful and luminous ___ of a star.
Astronomers say a colossal star known as ____ is 265 times more massive than the sun.
Black holes are ____.
Stars contain solid mass.
At ____ stars, astronomer Annie Jump Cannon holds the record for having manually classified the most stars in a lifetime.
Famous cosmologist Carl Sagan called the sun a ____ star.
A shooting star is not a star.
Have you ever seen a shooting star (in real life)?
Have you ever seen a shooting star (in real life)?