STARS
PLANETS
SUN
GALAXIES
OTHER
100
What category is our sun?
Main sequence
100

The largest planet

Jupiter

100

T or F.  There are some cool spots on the sun.

Fight it out

100

The name of the galaxy we live in.

Milky Way

100

T or F.  According to the Big Bang theory the universe had a beginning.

True

200

The hottest color stars are _________

Blue

200

The inner planets are called this.

Rocky planets

200

The layer of the sun we can see.

photosphere

200

The shape of the galaxy we live in.

spiral

200
The astronomer who discovered the red shift in light through his telescope.
Hubble
300

What is the color of the stars of the lowest temperature?

Red

300

What lies between Mars and Jupiter.

Asteroid belt

300

This type of heat exchange thought to be above the radiative layer

convection

300

The approximate width of our galaxy.

100,000 light years

300

Arno Penzias and Robert Wilson discovered this to add evidence to a universal beginning.

Cosmic background radiation or radiation afterglow.

400

T or F.  Stars originate from planetary nebula.

False

400

The astronomer who determined the heliocentric model of our solar system

Copernicus

400

The solar eruption which returns to the sun.

flare or prominence

prominence

400

The approximate number of stars in the Milky Way.

200 billion

400

The two most abundant elements in the universe.

Hydrogen and Helium

500

Describe apparent magnitude.

The brightness as it appears from earth but not necessarily its actual magnitude.

500

The astronomer responsible for the discovery of the laws of planetary motion.

Kepler

500

How the sun gets his hair cut.

Eclipse it.

500

This car company once made a model called "the Galaxy"

Ford 

500
Where wealthy astronomers keep their money.

The Big Bank.

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