The Big Bang and Galaxies

Where is the best place to put a telescope to get the clearest images of deep space?

• Near a city
• In space
• Top of a mountain
• In a desert

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Where is our Solar System located in the Milky Way galaxy?

• Near the center
• Near the outside on one of the arms

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Which type of galaxy is the brightest with a lot of new stars?

• Irregular
• Spiral
• Elliptical

How long does it take light from our Sun to reach Earth?

• 3 seconds
• 8 minutes
• 57 hours
• 1 year

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How old do scientists think the Universe is?

• 13.8 billion years old
• 4.5 billion years old
• 24,000 years old
• 5 years old

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The distance light can travel in 1 year is called...

• Light Year
• Light Distance
• Space year

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What does the Big Bang theory suggest?

• The universe was just there
• The Milky Way is the only solar system
• The universe is continually expanding
• The universe is collapsing in toward a single point

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The big bang was a/an what?

• explosion
• unknown
• expansion
• contraction

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This galaxy has no definite shape 

• irregular galaxy 
• spiral galaxy
• elliptical galaxy 

A light year is a unit of

• time
• distance 
• mass
• density