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What is a large celestial body that is orbiting around a star?
planet
On what day of creation were the sun, moon and stars created?
4
Which type of star cluster has an irregular appearance?
Globular
What is the area surrounding the Milky Way galaxy's disk?
The Halo
Which planet has the largest diameter?
Saturn
How big is the diameter of the Milky Way?
100,000 light years
Who was the president that launched the race to the moon in 1961?
President John F. Kennedy
6-3 = ?
3
The very bright explosions of certain stars that astronomers think are the end of such stars.
supernovae
Fill in the blank: Genesis 15:5
Look now toward _____ and count the _____ if you are able to number them.
heavan, stars
What is the name for the system created to measure the brightness of stars?
Magnitude
What does ROYGBIV stand for?
red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
Which are the outer planets?
Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto
How long is the sunspot cycle?
11 Years
Which astronomer wrongly concluded that the sun is at the center of the galaxy?
William Herschel
What is the tallest mountain in the world?
Mount Everest
When a planet appears to move east and west with respect to the stars, opposite its normal motion
retrograde motion
How many times is Pleiades mentioned in the Old Testament?
3
From which part of the sun do we receive almost all of our radiation?
Photosphere
What does QSO stand for?
Quasi-stellar objects
What are the two classifications of planets?
Jovian and Terrestrial
What is the brightness of a Full Moon?
-12
Johannes Kepler
What weirdo word is this:
you
you
What is volcanic activity that takes place on very cold objects in space?
cryovolcanism
Fill in the blank: Joel 2:31
The _____ shall be turned into darkness, And the _____ into blood...
sun, moon
What two theories were debated in trying to explain the craters on the moon?
Volcani activity or impacts
How much larger is the mass at the core of the Milky Way than that of the sun?
2.6 million times larger
What spacecraft has been used to find a very large number of extrasolar planets?
Kepler
In what year did Edwin Hubble discover the universe is expanding?
1929
List any of three creation scientists working on theories to explain the light-time-travel question.
Danny Faulkner
John Hartnett
Russ Humphreys
Jason Lisle
Who are the 2 boy kings from the Bible?
Josiah and Joash
Pulsating giant and supergiant stars that follow a period-luminosity relationship, making them useful for measuring distances
Cepheid variables
Fill in the blank: Deuteronomy 4:19
And take heed, lest you life your eyes to _____, and when you see the ____, ____, and the ____, all the host of heavan , you feel driven _____ them...
heavan, sun, moon, stars, worship
What does the color of a star tell us?
Its temperature
Which light has wavelengths too short for us to see?
Ultraviolet
If a new planet was discovered, what agency would name it?
International Astronomical Union
What is the radius of the moon's orbit in miles?
240,000 miles
Who developed a new class of telescopes in the NASA project Moonblink?
Lyle T. Johnson
Which of these words has not been a Bible word of the week?
protect kind
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