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Quiz Questions: cosmic objects and the universe
- What wildely held theory describes how the universe expanded and evolved?
- What is the outermost layer of a star's atmosphere called?
- What element is the most abundant resource in the galaxy?
- What highly luminous objects in the early universe are thought to be powered by supermassive black holes?
- Which gas giant has a mass more than two and a half times that of all the other planets in the Solar System combined?
- Because of its shape, our Milky Way is decribed as what sort of galaxy?
- What word comes from the Latin term meaning "set of stars"?
- By what name do we know the large pattern of seven bright stars of the constellation Ursa Major?
- Which small star discovered in 1915 by Robert Innes, is the nearest-known star to the Sun?
- The asteroid belt is a region of space between the orbits of which two planets?
- What is formed when a low-mass star has exhausted all its central nuclear fuel and lost its outer layers as a planetary nebula?
- What is the nearest major galaxy to the Milky Way?
- Pluto, Eris, and the asteroid Ceres were the first members of the category in 2006?
- What is the coldest planet in our solar system?
- Located beyond low-Earth orbit, name the radiation belts first discovered in 1958?
- In astronomy, what is a syzygy?
- What is a cloud of dust and gas in space called?
- What unit used by astronomers is equal to 3.26 light-years?
- What name is given to star which suddenly increases in brightness by a factor of more than hundred?
- What comes in six flavors: up, down, charm, strange, top and bottom?
Answers
- Big Bang Theory
- Corona
- Hydrogen is the most abundant element (Helium is second)
- Quasars
- Jupiter
- A spiral galaxy
- Constellation
- The Plough (UK, Ireland), or the Big Dipper (US, Canada)
- Proxima Centauri
- Mars and Jupiter
- A white dwarf
- The Andromeda Galaxy (2.5 million light years away from Earth)
- Dwarf planet category
- Uranus (even though neptune is further away from the Sun)
- Van Allen radiation belt
- Straight-line configuration of three or more celestial bodies
- Nebula
- Parsec
- Nova
- Quarks