Around the world in 80 telescopes: a space trivia quiz

Around the world in 80 telescopes: a space trivia quiz | Space Skip to main content Don’t miss these Skywatching Kit Best telescopes ahead of Black Friday 2025: Observe stars, galaxies and nebulas Skywatching Kit Best telescopes for beginners 2025: The best scopes for budding new astronomers Hubble Space Telescope Hubble trouble: Can you handle the cosmic challenge? James Webb Space Telescope Infrared and informed: The ultimate James Webb Space Telescope quiz Search for Life The search for life: A space science quiz Stargazing The ultimate night sky IQ test Exoplanets Guess that alien planet: Are you an exoplanet expert? Astronomy Astronomy or astrology? A quiz of science and stars Asteroids Rock the cosmos: An asteroid trivia quiz Eclipses Total eclipse of the smart: an eclipse themed space quiz Stars To the stars: a stellar trivia quiz Stargazing Lunar landscapes: Can you name that feature? The moon Moonrise moments: A skywatching quiz Earth Test your true terrestrial trivia with our Earth quiz! Meteors & Meteor Showers Streak seekers: The ultimate meteor shower quiz Arecibo radio observatory shown in Species (1995). (Image credit: Amazon MGM) Long before space travel, we looked up and wondered. Telescopes became our first spacecraft — tools that let us explore the universe without leaving the ground.Today, observatories span the globe, perched on remote peaks and buried underground, each one designed to peel back the layers of cosmic mystery.But Earth isn’t the only place we’ve set up shop. Space-based telescopes like Hubble, James Webb, and Chandra orbit far above the atmosphere, capturing images and data that ground-based scopes could only dream of. Together, these instruments have revealed black holes, distant galaxies and the birthplaces of stars. You may like Infrared and informed: The ultimate James Webb Space Telescope quiz Hubble trouble: Can you handle the cosmic challenge? The search for life: A space science quiz Whether you’re a casual stargazer or a full-blown astrophile, this quiz will challenge your cosmic curiosity and maybe even expand your mental field of view.Try it out below and see how well you score! Get the Space.com NewsletterBreaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsors Kenna Hughes-CastleberryKenna Hughes-Castleberry is the Content Manager at Space.com. Formerly, she was the Science Communicator at JILA, a physics research institute. Kenna is also a freelance science journalist. Her beats include quantum technology, AI, animal intelligence, corvids, and cephalopods. You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. Logout Read more Infrared and informed: The ultimate James Webb Space Telescope quiz    Hubble trouble: Can you handle the cosmic challenge?    The search for life: A space science quiz    Rock the cosmos: An asteroid trivia quiz    To the stars: a stellar trivia quiz    Test your true terrestrial trivia with our Earth quiz!    Latest in Astronomy Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2025, sparking radio blackouts across Africa and Europe    Does quantum gravity exist? A new experiment has deepened the mystery    Scientists 3D printed muscle tissue in microgravity. The goal is to make human organs from scratch    ESA’s sun spacecraft captures 1st close-up of our star’s magnetic engine in motion    Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io may be hundreds of times hotter than scientists thought    Aging stars destroy their planets more often than we thought: What does this mean for Earth?    Latest in Quizzes Mission to the moon: The Artemis challenge    Around the world in 80 telescopes: a space trivia quiz    NASA’d too hard: The ultimate NASA trivia quiz    The hunt for dark matter: a trivia quiz    No redshirts allowed: A nearly impossible sci-fi trivia quiz for command-level nerds only    The search for life: A space science quiz    MORE FROM SPACE…1Kenko VC Smart Cellarto 10×30 WP binoculars review2Around the world in 80 telescopes: a space trivia quiz3Comet Lemmon lights up the sky over Spain | Space photo of the day for Nov. 11, 20254Does quantum gravity exist? A new experiment has deepened the mystery5Sun unleashes strongest solar flare of 2025, sparking radio blackouts across Africa and Europe Close Please login or signup to comment Please wait… Login Sign Up