(50) Universe

Question 1

Halley’s Comet appears once in a period of

Answer 1

76 Years

Question 2

Jupiter is larger than the earth by about

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11 times

Question 3

Lunar eclipse occurs on

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Full moon

Question 4

The hottest planet

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Venus

Question 5

Distance of earth and the sun in Million Kms is

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149

Question 6

A terrestrial planet is a planet of

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A dense, rocky body

Question 7

The planet having 27 moons

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Uranus

Question 8

the orbits of planets around the sun, or of sattelites around the earth can be

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Circular and Elliptic

Question 9

Fastest Planet

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Jupiter

Question 10

____ and ____ has no satellites

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Mercury and Venus

Question 11

The change in colour of stars arises due to

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Variation in their surface temperature

Question 12

The North Star is a part of the constellation

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Little Dipper

Question 13

The outermost layer of the sun is called

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Corona

Question 14

____ planet have the largest number of satellite in the solar system

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Jupiter

Question 15

The Radiant energy of the sun is transmitted in the form of

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Short Waves

Question 16

The planet that lies at the outermost orbit of the solar system is

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Neptune

Question 17

___ planet is the largest of inner planets

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Earth

Question 18

Tides are highest

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when the sun, moon and earth are in line

Question 19

Asteriods have their orbit b/w the planets

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Mars and Jupiter

Question 20

Year is longest on

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Mercury

Question 21

The bright heavenly body with a long luminous tail is called

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A comet

Question 22

The first satellite was launched by

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USSR

Question 23

___ planet takes the largest time to go once around the sun

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Neptune

Question 24

Black Hole?

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• A body in space
• does not allow any radiation to come out
• this property is due to its Very Hight Density.

Question 25

Evening Star?

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Venus

Question 26

Earth's rank in term of size in solar system

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5th

Question 27

The planet with the shortest rotation time around its axis is

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Jupiter

Question 28

The planets are kept in motion in their respective orbits by the

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Gravitation and centrifugal forces

Question 29

Big Bang theory

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- An explosion about 10 to 15 billiion years ago | - Most astronomers believe to be the origin of the Universe

Question 30

Operation Path Finder was the mission to

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Mars

Question 31

Black Holes are stellar objects which

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Have intense gravitational field

Question 32

How may satellites of saturn planet

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56 | acc to wikipedia it has 62 moons out of which 53 are named

Question 33

____ and ____ planets appear as 'Morning Star' in the eastern sky and 'Evening Star' in the western sky

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Mercury and Venus

Question 34

____ planet contain largest quantity of Carbon Dioxide 95%

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Venus

Question 35

____ Planet reflects back to space the highest percentage of light it recives from sun

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Venus

Question 36

___ planet takes nearly same time for a rotation on its own axis as the does the earth

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Jupiter

Question 37

The only planet in the solar system which rotates on its own axis from East to West is

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Uranus

Question 38

Why saturn is Unique in Solar System?

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There is a well developed system of rings around it

Question 39

Biggest star in our galaxy

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Proxima Centauri

Question 40

After Ibn Zubair; who observed the sun spots?

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Galileo

Question 41

Sun Spots?

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- Cooler areas which move about on the Sun's surface and show up as dark spots

Question 42

A light Year, as a unit of measurement of distances of heavenly bodies, is equal to

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9 1/2 million kms

Question 43

Neptune takes ____ years to orbit around the sun

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165 years

Question 44

Visible part of the sun is called

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Photosphere

Question 45

Galileo discovered the saturn rings in

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1610

Question 46

____ was the first to speculate that Venus is completely covered with clouds

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Christian Huygens

Question 47

____ was first to determine that the day on the Mars was roughly 24hrs long

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Giordano Burno

Question 48

How long does a Sun-ray take to travel from the sun to the earth

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498 Sec | -8min 20sec

Question 49

Stars which appear single to the naked eye but are double stars when observed by a telescope, are known as

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Bindaries

Question 50

Acc to scientific research water is presend on the surface of _____ except earth planet

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Mars