Astronomy Quiz

Which of the following is a large clouds of gas and dust held together by a balance of pressure and gravity? It's also where stars are born.

• a nebula

• a galaxy

• a neutron star

• a globular cluster

The life path of a star depends on

• its magnitude

• its composition

• its mass

• its temperature

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Stars spend most of their lives as

• giants

• dwarves

• main sequence

• supernovas

Which is true about light years?

• it's a measure of distance

• it's a measure of time

• it's best for distance around the solar system

• it measures the magnitude of stars

Our sun uses a process called

• nuclear fusion

• fission

• gravity

• photosynthesis

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The most common element in a main sequence star is

• hydrogen

• helium

• nitrogen

• oxygen

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Most stars are small or medium mass like our sun. What will they become at the end of their life-cycle?

• Red Giants

• Black holes

• White dwarves

• neutron stars

On a really dark night (without light pollution) our view from Earth looks like this. Why?

• There are dense stratus clouds in the area

• We are inside a spiral disk, so the stars are densely collected in a band from our perspective

• We still don't know why the sky looks this way sometimes.

BOTH of these pictures represent our location in the Milky Way galaxy

• True

• False

According to Hubble and Lemaitre, the universe will likely...

• expand forever

• expand for another million years, then contract in a big crunch

• remain in a steady state

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