SCIENCE AND THE SENSE OF WONDER

Question 1

how many stars are in the sky?

Answer 1

about 300 billion

Question 2

how fast does light travel?

Answer 2

186,282 miles each second

Question 3

what is whitman’s claim?

Answer 3

looking at the night sky and admiring its beauty is more interesting and intellectually stimulating than doing the learning and science part

Question 4

what is the size of the andromeda galaxy?

Answer 4

twice the size of our galaxy

Question 5

how bright are some galactic centers?

Answer 5

so bright that they can be seen from distances of billions of light years

Question 6

what began fifteen billion years ago?

Answer 6

all galaxies began hurrying outward from each other in a vast universal expansion

Question 7

what is asimov’s claim/argument?

Answer 7

there’s more to the universe’s beauty to explore

Question 8

there are world with thick atmospheres of __________ and __________.

Answer 8

carbon dioxide and sulfuric acid

Question 9

what was the gap in saturn’s rings called?

Answer 9

cassini’s division

Question 10

what year did whitman die?

Answer 10

1892