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In what year did Neil Armstrong become the first person to step onto the moon?

1969

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What does the word solar mean?

Sun

20

How long has the Hubble Space Telescope been taking pictures of distant galaxies?

More than 20 years

15 years

10 years

More than 25 years

10

When was the Hubble telescope taken into space by the Space Shuttle?

2000

1990

2010

1980

10

The Hubble Telescope is getting...

purchased by Nasa

refurbished

new rocket boosters

old

10

Recently the Hubble Telescope needed a new...

engine

computer

camera

rocket

10

Because the light from distant objects travels so far and for so long we see pictures of objects that are...

untrustworthy.

hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years old.

mostly blurry.

warped and distorted.

10

What does the Hubble Telescope do in space?

Take pictures

20

How long does it take Saturn to orbit the sun?

20 years

29.5 years

30.5 years

19.5 years

15

How many earths can you fit into our sun?

About 50 thousand

About 10 million

About one hundred thousand

About 1 million

15

The earth is the ________ planet from our sun.

fifth

third

forth

second

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Which planet is the largest in our solar system?

Neptune

Mercury

Jupiter

Saturn

15

Most meteors are from within our own solar system.

True

5

Our moon is about 1/4 the size of earth.

True

5

Neptune was discovered by _________________ who noticed that something was pulling on Uranus.

mathematicians

archeologists

historians

astronomers

15

Which planet is the second planet from the sun?

Venus

Mercury

Earth

Mars

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