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Brighest star in Boötes
Arcturus
Brightest star in Canis Major
Sirius (brightest star in the night sky)
Brightest star in Lyra
Vega
Brightest star in Auriga
Capella
Two brightest stars in Orion (right knee)
Rigel
one of the two brightest stars in Orion (right sholder)
Betelgeuse
Brightest star in Canis Minor
Procyon
Brightest star in Aquila
Altair
Brightest star in Taurus
Aldebaran
Brightest star in Scorpius
Antares
Brightest star in Virgo
Spica
Two brightest stars in Gemini
Castor and Pollux
Two brightest stars in Gemini
Castor and Pollux
Brightest star in Cygnus
Deneb
Brightest star in Piscis Austrinus
Fomalhaut
Brightest star in Leo
Regulus
The north pole star is called
Polaris
The constellation Orion is mentioned in what passage
All of these
In what passage of Scripture does God promise Abraham he will have descendants that number the stars in the sky?
Genesis 15:1-6
The Pleiades is mentioned in what passage of Scripture?
Job 9:4-10
The path the sun takes through the celestial sphere is called…
ecliptic
Which of the following is not a reason why God gave us the sun, moon, and stars?
To help us predict the future
What comes after Aries in the 12 zodiac constellations?
Taurus
What comes after Cancer in the 12 zodiac constellations?
leo
What comes after Libra in the 12 zodiac constellations?
Scorpius
What comes after Sagittarius in the 12 zodiac constellations?
Capricornus
When standing on the equator, Ursa Major is a circumpolar constellation.
true
If you traveled to the southern hemisphere and watched the stars around the celestial pole all night long, the stars would look they they are spinning around the pole…
clockwise
Looking down on the north pole, the Earth spins…
Counterclockwise
Ursa Majoris…
A constellation
The Summer Triangle is
asterism
Ancient people considered Neptune a planet.
false
Ancient people considered Earth a planet.
true
When a star rises as the sun is setting, reaching the meridian at high midnight, this is the star’s…
Acronical rising
In 13,000 years, the Earth’s axis will still be pointing toward Polaris.
false
What planet comes right after Saturn in the solar system?
uraius
The asteroid belt is between…
Mars and Jupiter
What are the two ice giant planets?
Uranus and Neptune
The Kuiper belt is located…
ar beyond the orbit of Neptune
A dwarf planet…
have not cleared a neighborhood
If you found a chunk of space rock on the ground, it would be a…
Meteorite
When Venus is at maximum elongation, its position is closest to the sun that it will ever get.
false
Total lunar eclipses happen only during…
a full moon
A partial lunar eclipse is when…
The moon enters part of the Earth’s penumbra but not the umbra
When the moon completely covers the disk of the sun, this is called…
Total Solar Eclipse
The moon takes how many days to go through all its phases
29.5
The Hebrews use a…
lunisolar calendar
The idea for a leap year every 4 years came from…
the romans
In the Metonic cycle, there should be an intercalary month added how many times in a 19-year cycle?
7
Pope Gregory XIII changed the rules of leap years. What is different compared to the Julian calendar?
here are only leap years when the year is divisible by 400.
If you saw this third quarter moon setting on the western horizon, you would know the sun should be…
Directly below your feet on the other side of the world
What is the only superior terrestrial planet?
mars
