Solar System Quiz - 37 Trivia Questions!
Embark on a journey through our solar system, exploring the planets, moons, and celestial phenomena that make up our cosmic neighborhood.
Which 17th century astronomer observed a transit of Mercury across the Sun in 1677?
What is the brightest star in the night sky?
Who first used the term 'Solar System' in 1704?
What is the most massive star in our solar system?
What is the largest moon of the planet Pluto?
What is the nearest star to the Sun?
What is the nearest red dwarf to the Sun?
Which planet is 0.33 AU further from the Sun than Mercury?
What is the name of the dwarf planet that orbits the sun at an average distance of 67.38 AU?
Which planet in our solar system orbits the sun on its side?
What are the other two giant planets in our solar system?
What is the name of the dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt that orbits the sun at an average distance of 43.13 AU?
The Kuiper Belt lies beyond which planet in our solar system?
What are found in the outer regions of our solar system?
The asteroid belt lies between which two planets in our solar system?
What is the name of the reddish-brown dwarf planet that orbits the sun at an average distance of 520 AU?
What are depicted in a diagram with the white bar showing orbital variations?
What shape are the orbits of the planets in our solar system?
What is the largest of the asteroids?
What is the name of the disk in our solar system out of which the Earth and other planets formed?
What name is given to the bubble-like region of the solar wind that extends outwards from the Sun?
What name is given to the boundary between the solar system and interstellar space?
What name is given to the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun?
What name is given to the point in the orbit of a planet when it is closest to its Sun?
What is the name of the cloud that surrounds our solar system?
Which is the largest moon of the planet Neptune?
The Kuiper Belt in our solar system is mainly composed of what?
What gives the surface of the planet Mars its red colour?
Which is the only planet in our solar system that is less dense than water?
What was the name given to the region of the solar system that formed 4.5 billion years ago?
What is the largest planet in our solar system?
The Sun is approximately two-thirds the diameter of what?
What is the largest moon of Jupiter?
What name is given to the part of the Milky Way in which the Sun orbits?
What is the name of the planetary nebula that has the appearance of an eye?
Which of the four inner planets of our solar system is closest to the Sun?
What is the name of the cloud of comets in our solar system?