1.2 Relationships in the Universe

A huge collection of stars

• Solar system

• Universe

• Gravity

• Galaxy

• Galaxium

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The distance light travels in one year.

• 2 AUs

• An astronomic unit

• A light year.

• 93 trillion miles.

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An astronomer is looking at a recent picture of space, that was taken by the Hubble Space Telescope. He describes the image by saying that it has a collection of many billions of stars bound together by gravitational attraction. What is the astronomer mostly like seeing in the picture?

• moon

• galaxy

• planets

• solar system

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Our nearest star neighbor, Proxima Centauri, is 4 light years away from Earth. How old is the light by the time we see it?

• 4,000 years-old
• 400 years-old
• 4 years-old
• 40 years-old

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Which statement below best describes the Universe?

• The Universe is a black hole made of dark matter.

• The Universe is a giant cloud of dust and gas in space.

• The Universe contains the Milky Way galaxy which contains most of the stars in space.

• The Universe contains many billions of galaxies and each galaxy contains many billions

  of stars.

Gustavo is doing a presentation in class comparing the objects of space by their relative sizes.

If “Z” represents a planet, what would “Y” most likely represent?

• A solar system because it contains planets and stars.

• A nebula because that is what the planets formed from.

• A galaxy because it contains billions of stars and the planets.

• A universe because it contains billions of stars and the planets.

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A huge collection of stars , gas and dust

• Universal

• Universe

• Galaxy

• Solar system

• Inner and Outer planets

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Which component from the table above is MOST likely a solar system?

• Component 4
• Component 2
• Component 1
• Component 3

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The following image was taken by the Hubble telescope.

Which of the following options best describes what is being observed?

• The image is a nebula that is thousands of light years wide, containing stars, galaxies, and planets.

• The image is a galaxy, that is thousands of light years wide, containing solar systems, nebulae, planets and millions of stars.

• The image is the Universe, that is thousands of astronomical units wide, inside a galaxy containing all the stars and planets.

• The image is a solar system, hundreds astronomical units wide, that contains a star in the center with planets, moons, and asteroids orbiting it.

Wave with the longest wavelength

• microwave
• radio
• gamma
• visible light

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