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Quiz about Around our local cluster of galaxies

Around our local cluster of galaxies Quiz

Hello! You and your crew are on a mission outside this galaxy! You go around but the space gods don't allow you to go from galaxy to galaxy unless you know its name or a fact about it.

A multiple-choice quiz by Pokeman2001. Estimated time: 4 mins.

Author
Pokeman2001

Time
4 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
361,711

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
7 / 10

Plays
323

One at a Time - Single Page - Timed Game

Question 1 of 10

1. First you and your crew leave your own galaxy, the _______. What's the name of this galaxy? Hint

Milky Way galaxy

Andromeda galaxy

Fried Egg galaxy

Cadbury Chocolate galaxy

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Question 2 of 10

2. Next you and your crew travel for 2,538,000 years at the speed of light to get to your next destination, the closest galaxy to ours. What is the name of this Galaxy? Hint

Horsehead Galaxy

Andromeda Galaxy

Crab Galaxy

Leo A

3. Next you and your crew spend 2.3 million years traveling to the Triangulum Galaxy. You watch the _______ type galaxy orbit the merging galaxies [the Milky Way and Andromeda]. What type of galaxy is the Triangulum? Hint

Elliptical Galaxy

Spiral Galaxy

Irregular Galaxy

Barred Spiral Galaxy

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Question 4 of 10

4. Next you travel 163,000 light years to the LMC galaxy, an irregular galaxy. What does LMC stand for? Hint

Large Magellanic Cloud

LMC isn't real and doesn't mean anything at all

Large Magnetic Column

Lake of Magellanic Clouds

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Question 5 of 10

5. Next you and your crew travel to the NGC 2419 globular cluster, what is the radius of this galaxy? Hint

247.72 Light years

115 Light years

311 Light years

260 Light years

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Question 6 of 10

6. Now You travel to the Ursa Minor Dwarf galaxy. Ursa Minor dwarf is a ______ of the milky way galaxy? Hint

Quasar

Satellite

Telescope

Nothing... its just an ordinary galaxy

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Question 7 of 10

7. Now you're a very long way from the Milky, Way/Andromeda and you've arrived at the galaxy Messier 82. When you enter the centre you see many stars being created. They are being created ___x faster than the entire Milky Way galaxy? Hint

4.52x

100x

10x

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Question 8 of 10

8. Now we arrive to the Tucana Dwarf galaxy. What is the apparent magnitude of this galaxy? Hint

15.7

34.12

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Question 9 of 10

9. Next you and your crew arrive at Leo II. You look around and find that you're _______ light years away into the constellation of Leo? Hint

680,000 Light years

20 Light years

259,567 Light years

690,000 Light years

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Question 10 of 10

10. Ahhh, finally you and your crew are on your way home and one of your crew members asks "what super cluster is this galaxy cluster in?" You answer.... Hint

Virgo Super Cluster

Barycenter Super Cluster

Chandrasekhar Super Cluster

LMC Super Cluster

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. First you and your crew leave your own galaxy, the _______. What's the name of this galaxy?

Answer: Milky Way galaxy

The diameter of our solar system is 79 AU [Astronomical units] and the diameter of the Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years (over 6 billion AU) which makes our galaxy huge!

2. Next you and your crew travel for 2,538,000 years at the speed of light to get to your next destination, the closest galaxy to ours. What is the name of this Galaxy?

Answer: Andromeda Galaxy

The Andromeda is the biggest galaxy in our local galaxy cluster and its set to collide into the Milky Way galaxy in about 4 billion years, and then merge together into one big elliptical galaxy!

Answer: Spiral Galaxy

The Triangulum is actually set to also collide and merge with the Andromeda/Milky Way galaxy.

4. Next you travel 163,000 light years to the LMC galaxy, an irregular galaxy. What does LMC stand for?

Answer: Large Magellanic Cloud

The Large Magellanic Cloud contains a very prominent bar in its centre, suggesting that it may have previously been a barred spiral galaxy.

5. Next you and your crew travel to the NGC 2419 globular cluster, what is the radius of this galaxy?

Answer: 260 Light years

Globular clusters are self-contained mini-galaxies usually orbiting a true galaxy. NGC 2419 is a satellite of the Milky Way galaxy and it takes three billion years to complete one orbit.

6. Now You travel to the Ursa Minor Dwarf galaxy. Ursa Minor dwarf is a ______ of the milky way galaxy?

Answer: Satellite

The Ursa Minor Dwarf Galaxy is like a moon of our own galaxy!

Answer: 10x

It is a galaxy remarkable for its webs of shredded clouds and flame-like plumes of glowing hydrogen blasting out from its central regions where young stars are being born 10 times faster than they are inside in our Milky Way Galaxy.

8. Now we arrive to the Tucana Dwarf galaxy. What is the apparent magnitude of this galaxy?

Answer: 15.7

Tucana Dwarf galaxy is composed of some very old stars.

9. Next you and your crew arrive at Leo II. You look around and find that you're _______ light years away into the constellation of Leo?

Answer: 690,000 Light years

Leo II is a tiny galaxy and barely visible even through a powerful telescope.

10. Ahhh, finally you and your crew are on your way home and one of your crew members asks "what super cluster is this galaxy cluster in?" You answer....

Answer: Virgo Super Cluster

Our local cluster is one of the many clusters in the Virgo super cluster.

Source: Author Pokeman2001

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