GALAXY

What is the Milky Way often mistakenly thought to be?

• A type of candy

• A famous painting

• A fantasy land full of milk products

• A fictional planet

What is the Milky Way primarily composed of?

• only stars

• only planet

• only gas and dust

• stars, dust, planet and gas

How old is the Milky Way galaxy?

• 13.6 billion years

• 6 billion years

• 20 billion years

• 15 billion years

What is believed to be at the center of the Milky Way?

• A cluster of asteroids

• A giant star

• A large planet

• A supermassive blackhole

What is the name of the black hole at the center of the Milky Way?

• Sagittarius A*

• Andromeda B

• Orion A

• Cassiopeia C

What will happen to the Milky Way in about 4 billion years?

• It will collide with Andromeda

• It will shrink

• it will become a star

• it will disappear

What is the speed at which the Milky Way and Andromeda are approaching each other?

what type of galaxy will form aster the Milky Way and Andromeda collide?

• A spiral galaxy

• An elliptical galaxy

• A barred galaxy

• A dwarf galaxy

Which galaxies are the largest in the local group?

• Milky Way, Andromeda, Triangulum

• Milky Way, Cassiopeia, Andromeda

• Andromeda, Orion, Triangulum

• Milky Way, Orion, Cassiopeia

How does the age of the Milky Way compare to the universe?

• It is twice as old as the universe

• it is older than the universe

• It is almost as old as the universe

• It is younger than the universe