Group E (THE GALAXIES)

Group E (THE GALAXIES)

University

15 Qs

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Group E (THE GALAXIES)

Group E (THE GALAXIES)

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Angelica Antipuesto

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15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

A _____ is a group of many stars, with gas, dust, and dark matter

Galaxy

Galaxies

Milky Way

Universe

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

2.______ holds galaxies together against the general expansion of the universe

Galaxy

Gravity

Universe

Milky Way

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

3.The stars are too closely packed to get an accurate count, but it certainly has more stars than some of the ___ galaxies.

Bigger

Greater

Smaller

Lesser

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

4. It is a cloud of gas and dust from which bodies in space are formed.

Sunspot

Solar flare

Photosphere

Nebula

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

5. Whose astronomer able to resolve individual stars in several of the brighter spiral-shaped nebulae including M31?

Harlow Shapley

Galileo Galilei

Edwin Hubble

Immanuel Kant

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

6. What is the most distant object in the sky that the human eye can see without optical instruments?

The Aurora Borealis

The Andromeda Galaxy

The Horsehead Nebula

The Sagittarius Constellation

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

20 sec • 1 pt

7. How was Hubble able to determine the distances of nearby galaxies?

by observing Cepheid variables in them

by using radar

by measuring trigonometric parallaxes

by measuring the typical angular separations of stars in them

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