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The Eunolia Astronomy Competition Final Test

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which one of these nebulae was the first nebula pictured?

a)

Orion Nebula

b)

Crab Nebula

c)

Helix Nebula

d)

Horsehead Nebula

2.

How many types of nebulae are there?

a)

2

b)

3

c)

4

d)

5

3.
  1. Which type of nebula gets its appearance from the ionization of hydrogen gas in it?

a)

Planetary nebula

b)

Dark nebula

c)

Emission nebula

d)

Reflection nebula

4.
  1. Which theoretical hypothesis suggests a connection between quantum entanglement and wormholes?

a)
  1. Higgs mechanism

b)
  1. ER=EPR conjecture

c)
  1. Casimir effect

d)

Grand Unified Theory

5.

 Which of the following scientists worked on the EPR paper’s paradox thought experiment?


a)
  1. Niels Bohr

b)
  1. Alan L Hart

c)
  1. Chien-Shiung Wu

d)

Boris Podolsky

6.
  1. What are gravitational waves?


a)
  1. Ripples in time caused by black holes

b)
  1. Ripples in spacetime caused by the acceleration of massive objects

c)
  1. High-frequency electromagnetic waves

d)

Oscillations in the Earth's gravitational field

7.
  1.  What event led to the first direct detection of gravitational waves by LIGO in 2015?


a)
  1.  The collision of two neutron stars

b)
  1. A supernova explosion

c)
  1. The merger of two black holes

d)

A gamma-ray burst

8.
  1. How old is the light from the CMBR that we observe today?

a)
  1. 500 million years

b)

100,000 years

c)

1 billion years

d)
  1. About 13.8 billion years

9.

The CMBR was released during which phase of the universe's development?

a)

During the inflationary period of the universe

b)

About 380,000 years after the Big Bang, when the universe became transparent to radiation

c)
  1. The moment of the Big Bang

d)

After the formation of stars and galaxies

10.

What is the reason stars in a constellation appear to form patterns, even though they are not physically related?

a)

The Stars are all moving in the same direction duo to the universe's expansion.

b)

They are part of a larger star system.

c)
  • They are coincidentally aligned from our perspective on Earth.

d)

The stars in constellations are at equal distances from Earth.