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Quiz Astronomy & Cosmology

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Simmy8
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Based on Khan Academy Science and Cosmology Videos
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Hard QUIZ 30 QUESTIONS
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Question 1 / 30

The _________ is 109 x the circumference of the Earth

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Question 2 / 30

150 million Km is __________ or the distance of the earth from the sun

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Question 3 / 30

It takes __________ for light to travel from the Sun to the Earth

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Question 4 / 30

________ is considered a dwarf planet and is located within the Kuiper belt

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Question 5 / 30

The largest planet is__________

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Question 6 / 30

The _____________ is speculated to be about 1 light year from the sun

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Question 7 / 30

The _______________ is super high velocity particles of electrons and protons projected from the Sun traveling at 400 km/sec

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Question 8 / 30

The ____________ is where the velocity of the forces of the sun particles slow because of hydrogen and helium

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Question 9 / 30

The four space telescopes in the NASA Great Observatories program are :

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Question 10 / 30

Voyager 1, now located as of 2012 in the heliosheath may become the first manmade object to ever______________

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Question 11 / 30

Scientists think that a super dense _____________ is at the center of our galaxy

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Question 12 / 30

There are about ____________ stars in the Milky Way Galaxy

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Question 13 / 30

The nearest large galaxy, the ____________ galaxy has trillions of stars

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Question 14 / 30

It is about _____________ to the edge of the known or visible universe

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Question 15 / 30

The objects at the edge of the known universe are now about 40 or 45 billion light years away due to _____________

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Question 16 / 30

The prevailing theory of how the universe began is the_______________

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Question 17 / 30

The Big Bang theory is that the Universe began as an infinitely small ____________ and expanded from there

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Question 18 / 30

Alan Guth proposed that there was a major period of ____________ to account for the issue of "homogeneity" in the Big Bang Theory

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Question 19 / 30

We know that the universe

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Question 20 / 30

At ______________ there is enough pressure and temperature for fusion to occur in a star.

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Question 21 / 30

Our Sun is a ________________ star, super high pressure and temperature keeps it from collapsing as the gravitational force is offset

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Question 22 / 30

A ___________ is an interstellar gas or cloud of Hydrogen gas which is a breeding ground for the birth of stars

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Question 23 / 30

The apparent change in position because of the change in line of sight is called__________

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Question 24 / 30

A ____________ is the distance of something that has a parallax angle of 1 arc second

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Question 25 / 30

If a star is more than 20 x the size of our sun, it will eventually turn into a ________

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Question 26 / 30

63, 115 au = _________

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Question 27 / 30

We know whether a star's brightness is because it is closer or because it is brighter because of the work of Henrietta Swan Leavitt and her work with ____________

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Question 28 / 30

There are two types of black holes__________ and _____________

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Question 29 / 30

Scientists say that the Milky Way has a black hole at the center because of

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Question 30 / 30

______________ is the change in frequency of a wave or other periodic event fo ran observer moving relative to its source.

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