The largest planet
Jupiter
T or F. There are some cool spots on the sun.
Fight it out
The name of the galaxy we live in.
Milky Way
T or F. According to the Big Bang theory the universe had a beginning.
True
The hottest color stars are _________
Blue
The inner planets are called this.
Rocky planets
The layer of the sun we can see.
photosphere
The shape of the galaxy we live in.
spiral
What is the color of the stars of the lowest temperature?
Red
What lies between Mars and Jupiter.
Asteroid belt
This type of heat exchange thought to be above the radiative layer
convection
The approximate width of our galaxy.
100,000 light years
Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered this to add evidence to a universal beginning.
Cosmic background radiation or radiation afterglow.
T or F. Stars originate from planetary nebula.
False
The astronomer who determined the heliocentric model of our solar system
Copernicus
The solar eruption which returns to the sun.
flare or prominence
prominence
The approximate number of stars in the Milky Way.
200 billion
The two most abundant elements in the universe.
Hydrogen and Helium
Describe apparent magnitude.
The brightness as it appears from earth but not necessarily its actual magnitude.
The astronomer responsible for the discovery of the laws of planetary motion.
Kepler
How the sun gets his hair cut.
Eclipse it.
This car company once made a model called "the Galaxy"
Ford
The Big Bank.