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WorksheetsASTRONOMY (The galaxy)
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 6mins
1. It is a galaxy appear as flat, blue-white disks of stars, gas and dust with yellowish bulges in their centers
Moon
Spiral
Constellations
What is the age of the Milky Way
14.9 Billion Years
11.5 Billion Years
13.6 Billion Years
At the center of the milky way sits a supermassive black hole called
Sagittarius
Perseus
Nebula
In what year does Hubble study the Andromeda Nebula?
1953
1973
1923
It’s called a ________ because if you could view it from the top or bottom, it would look like a spinning pinwheel.
Irregular
Spiral Galaxy
Elliptical
A large collection of stars, dust, and gas in space. A system of millions or billions of stars held together by gravity.
Constellations
Galaxy
Andromeda Galaxy
Elliptical are preferentially found close to the centers of galaxy clusters. It ranges in size from tens of millions to over one hundred trillion stars.
True
False
He is a Dutch astronomer, sometimes dubbed the master of the galactic system, was the first to realize that the Milky Way isn't motionless but rotates, and he calculated speeds at which stars at various distances orbit around the galactic center.
Hubble
Jon Oort
Charles Messier
Are stars whose brightness changes periodically over time, and they had been discovered by the American astronomer, Henrietta Leavitt, in the early 1900ʼs.
RR Lyraes
RS Pupis
Cepheids
Which of the following is a characteristic of spiral galaxy/galaxies?
Appears as blue-white disks of stars
Galaxies that are abundant in the early universe
They possess little gas and dust, contain older stars and not actively forming stars anymore
. Galaxies which have very little dust, are neither disk-like nor elliptical. Astronomers often see these galaxies as they peer deeply into the universe, which is equivalent to looking back in time.
Barred Spirals
Irregular
Spirals
Give the 2 groups that divided under Spiral Galaxies
Star and Moon
Dwarf and Giant
Normal and Barred
The following are major categories of galaxy except one:
Elliptical
Globular
Spiral
In other part of the world, our galaxy goes by another name. In Kalahari Desert in Southern Africa, it is called ________.
Backbone of the Silver
Backbone of the Botswana
Backbone of the night
In his paper, He plotted a graph of the velocity of galaxies (obtained from determining the redshift of the spectra of these galaxies) against their distances (from Cepheid variables).
Edwin Hubble
Jan Oort
Charles Messier
