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Which planet has the largest magnetosphere, filled with plasma from its moon Io?

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About this space oddities trivia quiz

Space oddities trivia brings together 15 multiple-choice questions about strange space facts. This medium-difficulty set belongs to the science collection and is designed for a quick, replayable way to test what you know while discovering a few unexpected facts.

The set includes prompts such as “Which planet has the largest magnetosphere, filled with plasma from its moon Io?”, “In 2011, astronomers found an immense water vapor cloud located how far from Earth?”, “According to the BBC and the Sun's upper atmosphere releases how many particles per second as solar wind?”. Read each question carefully, choose an answer, and use the explanation after each round to learn the context behind the correct choice. You can also challenge a friend to the same topic when you are ready for a head-to-head trivia duel.

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  • Which planet has the largest magnetosphere, filled with plasma from its moon Io?
  • In 2011, astronomers found an immense water vapor cloud located how far from Earth?
  • According to the BBC, the Sun's upper atmosphere releases how many particles per second as solar wind?
  • According to the BBC, a region of space contains enough ethyl alcohol to provide how many pints of beer per day for every person on Earth for a billion years?
  • The first exoplanet found outside our solar system by Hubble in 2008 was named what?
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  1. Which planet has the largest magnetosphere, filled with plasma from its moon Io?
  2. In 2011, astronomers found an immense water vapor cloud located how far from Earth?
  3. According to the BBC, the Sun's upper atmosphere releases how many particles per second as solar wind?
  4. According to the BBC, a region of space contains enough ethyl alcohol to provide how many pints of beer per day for every person on Earth for a billion years?
  5. The first exoplanet found outside our solar system by Hubble in 2008 was named what?
  6. How long does a "solar day" (sunrise to sunrise) last on Mercury?
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  1. A teaspoon's worth of neutron star material weighs how much?
  2. The Moon is not actually round. What shape does the book say it resembles?
  3. What happened to the exoplanet Fomalhaut b when scientists went hunting for it in 2020?
  4. Which planet is considered the coldest in our Solar System?
  5. Scientists hypothesize that the core of 55 Cancri e could consist of carbon in the form of what?
  6. How many rogue planets do astronomers believe could be floating freely in the Milky Way?
  7. Which crew are the only crew to have died in space?
  8. The most water ever discovered surrounds what, 12 billion light-years away?
  9. In 2009, scientists discovered ethyl formate in a Milky Way gas cloud. What is ethyl formate responsible for?

Questions are from the Selected 500 Trivia Question Bank, with the current set reviewed on 2026-08-07.

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