Astronomy Quiz

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How much longer can we expect the Sun to shine?

Another 50 million years

Another 100 million years

Another 5 billion years

Another 50 billion years

Where lurks the nearest supermassive black hole to us?

CERN

Milky Way Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy

NGC 4395

What was the source of the gravitational waves detected by LIGO on 14 September 2015?

A black hole lunching on a binary star system

A binary neutron-star merger

A merger of two black holes of mass 18 and 8 solar masses

A merger of two black holes of mass 36 and 29 solar masses

When is the next total solar eclipse over continental USA?

21 August 2017

2 July 2019

26 December 2019

14 December 2020

Which is the largest dwarf planet? (diameter)

Pluto

Ceres

Makemake

Eris

Which is the closest rocky exoplanet?

Epsilon Eridani b

Gliese 674 b

Proxima b

Planet X

In which year occurred the total solar eclipse that helped Eddington prove Einstein was right about General Relativity?

1905

1919

1929

None of the above

Why was Pluto demoted from planet to dwarf planet?

It is not round enough

It is just the biggest of many similar bodies

There is a conspiracy against US planetary discoveries

It is not gravitationally dominating its orbit

How many planets does the most crowded exoplanetary system have? (At the beginning of December 2016 and excluding unconfirmed exoplanets)

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