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It doesn't matter whether you think Pluto is a planet or not. Do you know how close it is to the sun?

No importa si piensas que Plutón es un planeta o no. ¿Sabes qué tan cerca está del sol?

¿Crees que conoces el espacio? Vamos.

El cuestionario espacial más difícil que tomarás hoy

The Hardest Space Quiz You'll Take Today

Let's start with a warm up. Which way does Earth spin?

Mars is about [half the width](http://www.space.com/16871-how-big-is-mars.html) of Earth.

Which planet is bigger?

Which of these planets has no moons?

Between February 1979 and February 1999 Pluto's elliptical orbit brought it [closer to the sun](http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/questions/question5.html) that Neptune. It will cross over again in just over 200 years from now.

Right now, which of these is further from the Sun?

It's one of the Galilean moons, along with Europa, Ganymede and Callisto.

Which of these is a moon of Jupiter?

Makemake is a dwarf planet in the Kuiper belt.

Which of these is the largest object in the asteroid belt?

[Pretty far](https://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/cosmic/milkyway_info.html).

Which of these is the distance between Earth and the centre of the Milky Way galaxy?

The Large Magellanic Cloud is a satellite of our own galaxy, so its closer. Andromeda is the largest galaxy in the Local Group and is [over ten times further away](http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410489) than the LMC.

Which galaxy is further away from Earth?

Which year was the first exoplanet discovered in?

It's the [ninth brightest star](http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-id?Ident=betelgeuse&NbIdent=1&Radius=2&Radius.unit=arcmin&submit=submit+id) in the night sky.

What type of star is Betelgeuse?

It's the [remnant of a supernova](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crab_Nebula#/media/File:Crab_Nebula.jpg). The other nebula above is the Orion nebula.

Which of these is the Crab nebula?

Hydrogen and helium were formed in the big bang, and everything else was [formed in stars](http://www.physics.org/article-questions.asp?id=52).

Which way were all the elements heavier than iron formed?

The red shift of distant galaxies shows that galaxies further away from us are moving quicker, suggesting that the universe is expanding.

Which of these is evidence for the big bang theory?

A supernova can form a black hole or a neutron star. A white dwarf form when a star doesn't have a large enough mass to go supernova.

Which of these can be formed in a supernova?

It's named after Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, the physicist who independently calculated the limit at the age of 19 in India. The Planck mass is much, much, much smaller.

Which of these refers to the mass over which a star will become a black hole?

And Opportunity is [still roving](http://mars.nasa.gov/mer/home/)!

Which year did the Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars?

Voyager 1 is the furthest human-made object from Earth, and it's just left the solar system. It's next stop is a star called AC +79 3888 40,000 years from now.

When will the Voyager 1 spacecraft pass by another star system?

[Vega 2](https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/profile.cfm?MCode=Vega_02) was a Soviet probe that landed on Venus in 1985. There have been flybys of the planet since, but no more landings.

When was the last time we landed a spacecraft on Venus?

The mirror was [two microns too flat](https://www.spacetelescope.org/about/faq/), and wasn't able to produce images as good as hoped.

Which of these problems did the Hubble Space Telescope encounter shortly after its launch?

All for just a few hours taking data when it got there – though analysis will take a lot longer.

How long did it take New Horizons to reach Pluto?

You really know your stuff! Carl Sagan would be proud.

Congratulations!

This quiz was pretty tough, but you did well. Give yourself a pat on the back.

Well done!

Space is not your best topic, but that's ok. Stay interested and keep learning!

Not bad!

You're not exactly a space whizz, but that's ok. Next time maybe you'd be better off just choosing at random, eh?

Oh dear!

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