Quiz 1 – Stars and Space

Answers

  1. 8
  2. 3 – The three kings or three sisters
  3. Pulsar
  4. 15 minutes. This occurred on May 5, 1961 when Alan Shepard achieved an altitude of 115 miles in NASA’s Freedom 7. He was also the first American in space. Shepard later went on to become the oldest person to walk on the surface of the moon. He achieved this in 1971 during the Apollo 14 mission. At the time, he was 47 years old.
  5. Cassiopeia
  6. Cancer
  7. Hubble Space Telescope
  8. Red
  9. Ursa
  10. Cheshire
  11. Star
  12. Pluto
  13. Saturn
  14. Magnetic field of the Earth (Magnetosphere) and Solar Wind (stream of charged particles from the Sun)
  15. The North Star or Pole Star
  16. As the Moon passes between the Earth and the Sun, we see the shadowed side of the Moon and when Earth is between the Moon and the Sun, it appears full to us.
  17. Nuclear Fusion – turning Hydrogen into Helium and a lot of energy!
  18. Yuri Gagarin
  19. 6 – Although NASA don’t think any of them have survived the environment up there!
  20. A binary star