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Quiz: Stars and more
1. What shape is the Milky Way?
2. How many star constellations does the sun pass through in a year?
3. How many stars does Aries consist of?
4. Which is the seventh planet from the Sun?
5. Which planet is never visible from the earth at midnight?
6. Comets are mostly made up of frozen gases and contain very little solid material. A comets tail grows as it nears the sun, can you tell whether its tail points away or towards the sun?
7. Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 broke up into 21 fragments in July 1992 and crushed into the surface of a planet, making it the most violent event in the recorded history of the solar system. Which planet was it?
8. Which is generally regarded as the most conspicuous feature on the surface of Mars?
9. Which is the brightest crater on the surface of the moon?
10. What is the name given to a star that does not quietly fade away but explodes completely?
ANSWERS
1. Spiral. The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy containing billions of stars including the sun.
2. Twelve. These constellations are all the signs of the zodiac.
3. Four. This is also a sign of the zodiac symbolizing a ram (a male sheep).
4. Uranus. Uranus is the only planet where the poles are hotter than the equator.
5. Venus
6. A comet’s tail always points away from the sun, pushed in that direction by the radiation pressure of the star.
7. Jupiter
8. Syrtis Major
9. Aristarchus
10. Super nova
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