Physics and Astronomy
Do you love gazing at the stars at night? Or do you ever wonder about the matter outside our planet? Quiz-Tree has provided a series of fun quizzes that will let you learn more about the celestial objects in our universe.
Challenge yourself on how much you know about the solar system and the heavenly bodies. Find out more interesting facts about the planets, stars and even the Milky Way by answering the games below. Learning astronomy and physics has never been this fun!
The Solar System 1
The Sun
| 1 | members | The Sun | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 10 |
The Planet Mercury
The Andromeda Galaxy
Neutron Stars
Supernovae
| 1 | all | Supernovae | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 6 |
Pulsars
| 1 | members | Pulsars | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 9 |
The Asteroid Belt
The Milky Way
Telescopes
| 1 | all | Telescopes | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 5 |
Black Holes
| 1 | members | Black Holes | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 9 |
Earth
| 1 | members | Earth | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 11 |
Jupiter
| 1 | members | Jupiter | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 12 |
Mars
| 1 | all | Mars | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 10 |
Neptune
| 1 | members | Neptune | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 8 |
Quasars
| 1 | members | Quasars | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 9 |
Saturn
| 1 | all | Saturn | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 11 |
Uranus
| 1 | all | Uranus | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 9 |
Venus
| 1 | members | Venus | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 10 |
Constellations
Eclipses
| 1 | all | Eclipses | 5 to Grown-ups | Picture Multiple Choice | 12 |
Famous Astronomers
Famous Scientists
Space
NASA's iconic images of Earth from space date back to the late 1960s--with snapshots taken by Apollo astronauts. The modern "blue marble" images are captured by machines and they're not photos. They're datasets collected by instruments aboard satellites and then translated into imagery on the ground.
As it circles Earth, NASA's Interstellar Boundary Explorer hunts for particles streaming in from beyond the solar system. It has intercepted hydrogen, helium, neon and oxygen atoms. IBEX principal investigator Dave McComas discusses how the abundance of those atoms hints at the Milky Way's composition.
The images from NASA's Gravity Recovery And Interior Laboratory (GRAIL) lunar spacecraft offer a fresh view of the moon's far side.
This week solar flares sent a huge blast of X-rays and charged particles screaming towards the Earth. Solar astronomer David Hathaway and physicist Doug Biesecker discuss the sun's explosive behavior, and how that 'space weather' affects satellites, airplanes and the electric grid.
A 33,000-year-old skull of a "wolf on the way to becoming a dog" was found in a Siberian cave. Evolutionary Biologist Susan Crockford, co-author of a study about the skull in PLoS ONE, discusses why the discovery challenges common beliefs about dog domestication.
NYT > Space & Cosmos
Operating on money and equipment scrounged from the public and from Silicon Valley millionaires, a band of astronomers recently restarted the search for extraterrestrial intelligence.
The space shuttles are headed for museums, but NASA said Friday that more than 6,300 people responded to its latest call for would-be astronauts, the second highest in its history.
Mr. Boisjoly wrote a portentous memo six months before the Space Shuttle Challenger?s explosion, warning that if it was too cold, seals connecting sections of the shuttle?s rocket boosters could fail.
Russia blamed radiation on Tuesday for a computer glitch that doomed its mission to a moon of Mars, but space industry experts cast doubt on the findings.
Could America build a lunar base during an eight-year Newt Gingrich presidency, as Mr. Gingrich promised this week? The obstacles would lie in money and politics.
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