Astro Trivia

What is the largest planet in our solar system?

• a) Mercury

• b) Jupiter

• c) Venus

• d) Saturn

What is the name of the first confirmed exoplanet, discovered in 1995 by Swiss astronomers Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz?

• a) Kepler-186f

• b) Proxima Centauri b

• c) 51 Pegasi b

• d) TRAPPIST-1e

What is the age of the universe estimated to be?

• a) 4.6 billion years

• b) 13.8 billion years

• c) 1 million years

• d) 100,000 years

What is the Kármán line?

• a)The boundary between the Earth's ionosphere and exosphere.

• b) The imaginary line separating the Northern and Southern hemispheres.

• c) The boundary between the Earth's atmosphere and interplanetary space.

• d)The line marking the highest point on Mount Everest.

Which star is closest to Earth?

• a) Proxima Centauri

• b) Sirius

• c) Alpha Centauri

• d) Betelgeuse