Do you agree to the Terms and Conditions of this quiz?
Yes
No
How much longer can we expect the Sun to shine?
Another 50 million years
Another 100 million years
Another 5 billion years
Another 50 billion years
Where lurks the nearest supermassive black hole to us?
CERN
Milky Way Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
NGC 4395
What was the source of the gravitational waves detected by LIGO on 14 September 2015?
A black hole lunching on a binary star system
A binary neutron-star merger
A merger of two black holes of mass 18 and 8 solar masses
A merger of two black holes of mass 36 and 29 solar masses
When is the next total solar eclipse over continental USA?
21 August 2017
2 July 2019
26 December 2019
14 December 2020
Which is the largest dwarf planet? (diameter)
Pluto
Ceres
Makemake
Eris
Which is the closest rocky exoplanet?
Epsilon Eridani b
Gliese 674 b
Proxima b
Planet X
In which year occurred the total solar eclipse that helped Eddington prove Einstein was right about General Relativity?
1905
1919
1929
None of the above
Why was Pluto demoted from planet to dwarf planet?
It is not round enough
It is just the biggest of many similar bodies
There is a conspiracy against US planetary discoveries
It is not gravitationally dominating its orbit
How many planets does the most crowded exoplanetary system have? (At the beginning of December 2016 and excluding unconfirmed exoplanets)
3
5
7
9
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