Stars, Galaxies & Spaceflight
Ten questions on the universe past our own planets, and the missions that went looking, each with the reasoning behind it.
About this topic
The Solar System is only the immediate neighbourhood, and the interesting questions start once you leave it. This quiz covers stars and what they are made of, the scale of cosmic distance and the units invented to cope with it, galaxies, black holes and the milestones of human spaceflight. It deliberately leaves the planets themselves to The Solar System, Explained, so the two sit alongside each other rather than repeating. The explanations tie each answer to the physics that produces it.
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