Statistics for Astronomy

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This quiz has been taken 41 times
The average score is 14 of 30

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Question	Answer	% Correct
A collection of star systems	Galaxy	97%
The distance that light travels in a vacuum in 1 year	Light Year	93%
An immense cloud of gas (mainly hydrogen) and dust in interstellar space	Nebula	76%
Gravitational field so intense light cannot escape; end of a very massive star	Black Hole	72%
Massive explosion of unstable high mass star	Super Nova	72%
Any of numerous small celestial bodies composed of rock and metal that move around the sun (mainly between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter) and are too small to be called planets	Asteroid	69%
Eclipse when it is sun, earth, moon	Lunar Eclipse	62%
Frozen chunks of rocks and metallic particles that orbit the sun in long elliptical paths	Comet	59%
The type of eclipse that occurs when it is sun, moon, earth	Solar Eclipse	59%
A faint star of enormous density	White Dwarf	59%
A star that expands and cools once it runs out of hydrogen fuel	Red Giant	55%
A sudden eruption of intense high-energy radiation from the sun’s surface	Solar Flare	55%
Large meteors that reach the earth’s surface and hit the surface	Meteorite	52%
A starlike object that may send out radio waves and other forms of energy	Quasar	52%
When the sun is above and below the horizon an equal amount of time	Equinox	48%
A star that has collapsed under its own gravity	Neutron Star	48%
An atmospheric phenomenon consisting of bands of light caused by charged solar particles following the earth’s magnetic lines of force	Aurora	45%
The day with the least hours of sunlight	Winter Solstice	45%
The intensely luminous surface of a star (especially the sun)	Photosphere	41%
A unit of measure equal to the mass of the sun	Solar Mass	41%
The view that the earth is the center of the universe	Geocentric	38%
Created laws of planetary motion	Kepler	38%
A nuclear reaction in which nuclei combine to form more massive nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy	Nuclear Fusion	38%
A pattern of stars arranged as a mythical figure or animal	Constellations	31%
A gaseous layer of the sun’s atmosphere (extending from the photosphere to the corona) that is visible during a total eclipse of the sun	Chromosphere	24%
Outermost layer of the sun’s interior	Convection Zone	17%
Are part of constellations. The Big Dipper is just part of the constellation Ursa Major	Asterism	14%
A stream of protons moving radially from the sun	Solar Wind	14%
The change in direction of the Earth’s axis	Precession	7%
Layer just outside the sun’s core, where energy is transported mostly in the form of radiation	Radioactive Zone	3%