Space Distance and Measurement Quiz

Test your knowledge on space distances and measurements with questions ranging from stars to galaxies and beyond in this astrophysics quiz.

#1

Which unit is commonly used to measure the distance between stars?

Kilometers
Light-years
Miles
Astronomical units
1 answered
#2

What is the distance between the Earth and the Sun approximately?

10 million kilometers
100 million kilometers
150 million kilometers
1 billion kilometers
1 answered
#3

Which unit of measurement is used to express the distance between planets within our solar system?

Kilometers
Miles
Astronomical units
Parsecs
1 answered
#4

What is the approximate distance between the Earth and the Moon?

100,000 kilometers
500,000 kilometers
1 million kilometers
384,400 kilometers
1 answered
#5

What is the approximate distance between the Sun and the nearest edge of the Oort Cloud?

100 light-years
1,000 light-years
10,000 light-years
1 light-year
1 answered
#6

What is the name of the unit used to measure distances to nearby stars based on their parallax?

Parsec
Light-year
Astronomical unit
Megaparsec
1 answered
#7

What is the approximate distance between Mars and Jupiter in astronomical units?

1 AU
2 AU
3 AU
4 AU
1 answered
#8

What is the name of the telescope used to measure cosmic microwave background radiation?

Hubble Space Telescope
Kepler Space Telescope
Spitzer Space Telescope
Planck Telescope
2 answered
#9

Which unit is used to measure the distance between galaxies?

Parsecs
Light-years
Astronomical units
Megaparsecs
1 answered
#10

Which spacecraft set the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth?

Voyager 1
Apollo 11
SpaceX Dragon
Sputnik 1
1 answered
#11

What is the approximate distance to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri, from Earth?

10 light-years
100 light-years
1,000 light-years
4.37 light-years
1 answered
#12

Which space mission was launched to study the outer heliosphere and interstellar space?

Pioneer 10
Apollo 11
Cassini-Huygens
New Horizons
1 answered
#13

What is the approximate distance to the nearest galaxy, the Andromeda Galaxy, from the Milky Way?

100,000 light-years
1 million light-years
10 million light-years
2.537 million light-years
#14

Which spacecraft holds the record for the fastest speed achieved by a man-made object relative to the Sun?

Voyager 1
Parker Solar Probe
Helios 2
New Horizons
#15

What is the approximate diameter of the Milky Way galaxy?

100,000 light-years
1 million light-years
10,000 light-years
1 billion light-years
#16

Which unit of measurement is used to express the vast distances between stars in galaxies?

Parsecs
Megaparsecs
Light-years
Astronomical units
#17

What is the concept used to describe the rate at which the universe is expanding?

Stellar parallax
Hubble constant
Redshift
Cosmic inflation
1 answered
#18

Which concept is used to describe the point in space from which the observable universe originated?

Hubble constant
Cosmic microwave background radiation
Big Bang theory
Steady-state theory
1 answered
#19

Which galaxy cluster is considered the largest known structure in the observable universe?

Virgo Cluster
Coma Cluster
Shapley Supercluster
Perseus-Pisces Supercluster
1 answered

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