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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

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

15 years

10 years

More than 20 years

More than 25 years

10

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

1990

1980

2010

2000

10

The Hubble Telescope is getting...

old

refurbished

new rocket boosters

purchased by Nasa

10

Recently the Hubble Telescope needed a new...

camera

engine

computer

rocket

10

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

mostly blurry.

hundreds, thousands, or even millions of years old.

untrustworthy.

warped and distorted.

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What does the Hubble Telescope do in space?

Take pictures

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How long does it take Saturn to orbit the sun?

19.5 years

29.5 years

30.5 years

20 years

15

How many earths can you fit into our sun?

About one hundred thousand

About 10 million

About 1 million

About 50 thousand

15

The earth is the ________ planet from our sun.

forth

third

second

fifth

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Which planet is the largest in our solar system?

Mercury

Neptune

Saturn

Jupiter

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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.

astronomers

mathematicians

archeologists

historians

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Which planet is the second planet from the sun?

Mars

Venus

Mercury

Earth

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