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General Astronomy MCQs

1. Nearest star to the earth is _____.

2. Presently the farthest planet from the Sun is _____.

3. Planet with maximum satellites is _____.

4. Which planet is called 'red planet'?

5. Which planet is called 'Double Planet'?

6. Largest satellite in Solar System is ____.

7. Sun-rays reaches earth in (approximately)

8. Largest planet of our Solar System is _____.

9. Smallest planet of our Solar System is _____.

10. Brightest planet of our Solar System is _____.

11. Hale Bopp' is a newly discovered ____.

12. Charon' is the satellite of _____.

13. A family or system of millions and millions of stars are called ____.

14. A system of millions and millions of galaxies are called _____.

15. The name of our galaxy is _______

16. What is the shape of our galaxy 'Milky Way'?

17. Orion and Great Bear stand for ______.

18. Our Solar System is an orderly community of _____.

19. How many planets does our Solar System consist of?

20. The word 'planet' means ____.

21. A celestial body having its own heat and light is called

22. A celestial body which revolves round a planet just as a planet revolves round the Sun is called _____.

23. A celestial body which revolves round the Sun and receives heat and light from it is called _____.

24. A swarm of small bodies in between the two Planets of Solar System is called 'asteroids' which are those two Planets?

25. The word 'satellite' means _____.

26. Big Bang Theory' explains

27. Sun revolves around galaxy once in every 250 million years, this length of time is called _____.

28. Planet nearest to the earth is _____.

29. Planet with nearly equal rotation and revolution time to the earth is _____.

30. Earth ranks _____ in the Solar System away from the Sun.

31. The sum of the characteristics that hold a mass in place is referred to as __________.

32. The great contribution of nicholas copernicus was to _________.

33. The interstellar clouds called molecular clouds are _______.

34. The james webb space telescope is designed primarily to observe __________.

35. The stars in our sky twinkle in brightness and color because of _________.

36. The virgin galactic will soon _____.

37. The sun reaches the zenith (directly overhead) at midday ___________.

38. The first humans arose ________ the last dinosaurs.

39. We never see a crescent jupiter from earth because jupiter __________.

40. Galileo challenged the idea that objects in the heavens were perfect by ________.

41. By examining the widths of the spectral lines we can find information about a star's _________.

42. For los angeles, during the autumnal equinox there are about _____ hours of daylight.

43. If a star has a low luminosity and also a high surface temperature then it must have __________.

44. If a star is large, it will remain in the main sequence _____ a small star.

45. Stars with masses less than ____ produce most of their energy via the proton-proton chain.

46. The area of the earth reached by a satellites transmission is referred to as its _____.

47. The astrology practiced by those who cast predictive horoscopes can be tested by __________

48. A zero-age main-sequence star is one that can __________.

49. When we see a meteor shower, it means that ________.

50. The axes on a hertzsprung-russell (h-r) diagram represent _________.

51. In addition to earth, the planet ________ shows clear evidence of water erosion.

52. The debris from a supernova explosion is called a supernova _________.

53. The habitable zone refers to ________.

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