Quiz
1. The first solar system outside our own has been discovered. What star is this new solar system's sun?
2. An Australian zoo recently celebrated the rare birth of baby duck-billed platypus twins. What is so unusual about platypuses?
3. A new superfast Japanese train has broken speed records in tests. How fast did it go?
4. In recent months several very well preserved child mummies have been discovered in what country?
5. In some muck off the coast of Namibia, researchers have found the largest bacterium ever discovered. Just how big is it?
1. The first solar system outside our own has been discovered. What star is this new solar system's sun?
Upsilon Andromedae
2. An Australian zoo recently celebrated the rare birth of baby duck-billed platypus twins. What is so unusual about platypuses?
They are egg-laying mammals.
3. A new superfast Japanese train has broken speed records in tests. How fast did it go?
343 mph
4. In recent months several very well preserved child mummies have been discovered in what country?
Argentina
5. In some muck off the coast of Namibia, researchers have found the largest bacterium ever discovered. Just how big is it?
As big as a poppy seed.
Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.
You've made it into orbit.
You've blasted to the deep reaches of space!