This section has quizzes on a wide range of astral phenomena, from the birth of stars to the death of the Universe, on cosmology and even extreme astrophysics!
Each of the following quizzes includes 15 multiple-choice style questions. If you get a question right, the next one will appear automatically, but if you get it wrong the correct answer will appear in a separate box so you can see where you went wrong. Just click ok to go to the next question. An overall score is given at the end of each quiz.
Black Holes :
Quiz 1 --- Quiz 2
Neutron Stars :
Quiz 1 --- Quiz 2
Stephen Hawking :
Quiz 1 --- Quiz 2
The heliosphere :
Quiz 1 --- Quiz 2
Star life :
Quiz 1 --- Quiz 2 --- Quiz 3
More quizzes coming soon!
Resources :
To support the quizzes in each section, we've put together some extra resources to provide further information:
- Articles - Alongside the quizzes, you'll find short articles on related topics, to help widen your knowledge of that area.
- Glossary - As with any field of scientific study astronomy has a long list of important terminology. So we've put together a glossary where you can check you fully understand the meaning of the more unusual words!