Astroname Interest

Question 1

What is the diff. Between a planet and a star?

Answer 1

A star is a body of reactive gass that is constantly going through nuclear fusion.

A planet contains solid liquids and gasses, does not have constant nuclear fusion

Question 2

Name the planets in order and there rough distance.

Answer 2

Mercury 58 mill km
Venus 108.2 mill km
Earth 149.6 mill km
Mars 227.9 mill km
Jupiter 778.5 mill km
Saturn 1.434 Bill km
Uranus 2.871 Bill km
Neptune 4.495 Bill km

Question 3

What is the goldiolcks zone

Answer 3

The inhabitable distance round a star

Question 4

How do the planets move around the sun

Answer 4

In a relatively circular orbit around the sun. Based on its gravitational pole

Question 5

Define an eclipse

Answer 5

It is when a planet, moon or other Lage body in space obscures the sun from reaching the earth or other planet

Question 6

What is the speed of light?

Answer 6

299 792 458 m/s
300 000 km/s

Question 7

How does knowing the speed of light enable us to specify interstellar distances

Answer 7

It helps us with a standard measurement so we can communicate more specifically about distances

Question 8

How long does it take for light from the sun to reach the earth.

Answer 8

8 min

Question 9

How close is the closest star to the sun?

Answer 9

4.24 light years

Question 10

What are the phases of the moon?

Answer 10

First quarter (half lit)
Waxing crescent (right quarter lit)
New moon (all black)
Waning crescent (left quarter lit)
Last quarter (left half lit)
Waning gibbus (right quarter dark)
Full moon (completely lit)
Waxing gibbous (left quarter dark)

Question 11

Star constellations

Answer 11

Aries
Southern cross
Orion’s belt
Taurus
Leo
Virgo
Sagittarius
Capricorn
Gemini
Cancer
Libra
Scorpio
Aquarius
Pisces

Question 12

2 ways of finding north using stars

Answer 12

Using southern cross look for longest space 4.5 lengths after that straight down is south

Using a the southern cross look for 2 long parts and the 2 pointer stars to see where they meet and straight down is south

Using orian look for the belt, then the sward. Straight below the sward is south

Question 13

What is an intergalactic distance?

Answer 13

The distances between galaxy’s

Question 14

How far and long is a light year?

Answer 14

One light year is 9 trillion km
In one earth year

Question 15

3 galaxy’s other than the milky way

Answer 15

Andromeda
Large magellanic cloud
Small magellanic cloud

Question 16

How to identify Andromeda Galaxy

Answer 16

North ish facing with the naked eye it looks slightly like a planet with an astroid ring (2.5 mill light years away)

Question 17

How to identify the large and small magellanic clouds

Answer 17

Both look like a stipe of light one is big one is small (158 200 light years away)

Question 18

The celestial poles

Answer 18

The axis the earth rotates around

Question 19

How to find the south celestial stars with southern cross?

Answer 19

The direction of south is the south celestial pole so using southern cross draw line along the further spaced of the 2 them use pointer stars to see where they meet up straight down is south