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Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Name the spacecraft that carried first lunar rover for first deep spacewalk.
Apollo 14
Apollo 15
Apollo 11
Apollo 10
Valles Marineris on Mars shows the evidence of what on its surface?
Water
Volcano
Highlands
Desert
Measurement of infrared, gamma and X-ray suggest that the core of our galaxy contains a black hole called ________
HE1327
HE1327-2326
Sagittarius A*
Virgo
Apart from its eccentricity, the orbit of Pluto is unusual in what respect?
It tilts at an angle of 17 degrees.
The orbit extends till the edge of solar System.
The orbit is inclined to Neptune’s orbit at 5 degrees.
None of these
Where are the craters of Dostoyevsky, Chopin and Van Gogh?
On Mars
On Uranus
On Mercury
There are no such craters
A comet's tail points in which direction?
toward the sun
toward the earth
behind the comet in its orbit
away from the sun
Which of the following men wrote the book "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres"?
Kepler
Euclid
Copernicus
Newton
What is the name of the hypothesis that life exists throughout the Universe?
Gaia hypothesis
Panspermia
Cosmological inflation
Gravitational singularity
What is the greatest distance of a planet from the sun called?
aphelion
perihelion
helix
eccentricity
Beads of light visible around the rim of the moon at the beginning and end of a total solar eclipse are called________
Lunar Beads
Solar Beads
Baily's Beads
Rim Beads
The VISUAL aurora consists of luminous arcs, rays or bands in the night sky, usually confined to high latitudes and located in the:
Troposphere
Stratosphere
Ozonosphere
Ionosphere
The resolving power of a telescope depends on the________
focal ratio
diameter of the objective
magnification
focal length
What is the most distant object in the sky that the human eye can see without optical instruments?
The Horsehead Nebula
The Andromeda Galaxy
The Sagittarius Constellation
The Aurora Borealis
What is the name of the spacecraft that recently used Jupiter's gravitational field to redirect its course toward the Sun's polar regions?
Magellan
Ulysses
Galileo
Challenger
A star like object with a very large redshift is a_______
neutron star.
nova
quasar
supernova.
The first and largest asteroid discovered was_________
Pallas
Juno
Ceres
Trojan
A device which would not work on the Moon is_______
thermometer
siphon
spectrometer
spring balance
The rocket with height 111m and payload 129,300kg was _________
Mercury-Atlas
Delta
Titan IV
Saturn V
Who is the author of this famous quote: “I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here.”
Stephen Hawking
Edwin Hubble
Arthur C. Clarke
Ian Ridpath
The device employed to measure the diameters of stars and our galaxy (Milky Way) is called_________
Photometer
Barometer
Viscometer
Interferometer
Which women astronaut has set the record for the longest single spaceflight ?
Peggy Whitson
Jessica Meir
Christina Koch
Sunitha Williams
Which of the following is considered as the first surviving Indian text containing a systematic discussion of astronomical instruments ?
Aryabhatiya
Bramasphutasiddhanta
Surya Siddhanta
Khandakhadyaka
Which of the following space agencies uses a spacecraft named Hayabusa?
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Centre National D'etudes Spatiales (CNES)
Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)
Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA)
The phenomenon that causes the Moon's rotation about it's own axis to be equal to the Moon's period of revolution about the Earth is called_______
Haner Effect
Landow Effect
Orbital Synchronization
Tidal Friction
Whose paradox asks why the sky is not ablaze with starlight if the universe is infinite in extent and uniformly filled with stars?
Olber's
Greigheim's
Schuller's
Miller's
