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Astronomy or Cosmology?
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Astronomy or Cosmology?
"All of the questions are related to astronomy or cosmology, even if sometimes tenuously."
1.
The term dirty snowball refers to a ______?
asteroid
meteorite
meteor
comet
2.
What is the name of the closest large spiral galaxy to our own Milky Way?
Andromeda
M33
Leo
NGC2143
3.
Who discovered the relationship between Redshift and distance within the universe?
Hoyle
Hewish
Hey
Hubble
4.
Where is the world's first fully steerable giant radio telescope located?
Jodrell Bank
Arecibo
Green Bank
Mount Wilson
5.
What does the 'C' in Einstein's famous equation E=MC2 stand for?
The age of the universe
Redshift
The speed of light in a vacuum
The Doppler Effect
6.
Who was first person recorded as seeing the moons of Jupiter and the rings of Saturn?
Galileo
Kepler
Lord Kelvin
Copernicus
7.
A Supernova is the explosion of a _______?
Bomb
Asteroid
Planet
Star
8.
What is the name of the largest moon of Saturn?
Titania
Triton
Titus
Titan
9.
What is the fuel that powers our sun?
Gasoline
Helium
Hydrogen
Oxygen
10.
What element is at the bottom of the Energy Well?
iron
uranium
lead
mercury
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