World PLANETS IN UNIVERSE General KnowledgeTEST NO.2

The period of one revolution of sun around the centre of galaxy is called?

How many are Satellites (Moons) of Saturn Planet?

Which of the following planets takes very nearly the same time for a rotation on its own axis as does the earth?

A Comet?

The sunspots cause?

Who was the first to determine that the day on the Mars was, like ours, roughly twently-four hours long?

Which of the following planets is called evening star?

The theory that refers to an explosion about 10 to 15 billion years ago,Which most astronomers believe to be the origin of the Universe,is called?

Which of the following planets is farthest from the sun?

The Milky way extends through a distance of?

The earth is the third nearest planet to the sun located between the planets?

When and by whom were the rings of Saturn discovered?

The planets of the solar system travel with the sun through millions of stars in our galaxy at a speed of about?

A star which appears blue' is?

Which one of the following planets has the maximum number of satellittes?

Stars which appear single to the naked eye but are double stars when observed by a telescope, are known as?

The temperature at the surface of the sun and its centre is respectively, about?

In which part of the solar system is the sun located?

The visible part of the sun is called?

Which planet is known as watery planet?

The planets are kept in motion in their respective orbits by the?

Some times the moon passes between the sun and the earth this phenomenon is known as?

Travelling at the speed of light one can travel how many times around the earth in one second?

How many days does the moon take to return to the same position among the constellations?

Who was the first to speculate that Venus is completely covered with clouds?

The altitudes of heavenly bodies appear to be greater than they actually are. This is due to?

During a solar eclipse,which of the following represents the relative position of the Sun,Moom and Earth correctly?

Name two planets lying between the sun and the earth?

The planet, Which is not only the smallest but also nearest to the sun, is?

The only planet in the solar system which rotates on its axis from East to West is?

A light year, as a unit of measurement of distances of heavenly bodies, is equal to?

How long does a sun-ray take to travel from the sun to the earth?

The comet, named after Edmund Halley, reappears after a time interval of every?

All of the following planets have lesser diameter than the earth,except?

What are sun-spots?

Which planet contains largest quantity of carbon dioxide i.e 95%?

'Galileo Satellites'', named after their discoverer, are four large moons of the planet?

The planet with the shortest rotation time around its axis is?

Which planet takes the largest time to go once around the sun?

The outermost layer of sun is called?

cPole star is always seen at one point in the sky Whereas other stars are not; this is because?

Titan, the largest moon in the solar system, is also the largest moon of?

According to new scientific research water is present on the surface of except earth planet?

The biggest star in our galaxy is?

How many times is the planet Saturn bigger than the earth (in diameter)?

What name is given to the path of the sun amongest the stars in our galaxy?

Super Nova is?

How many of the eight planets of the solar system were known in the life time of Kepler, the formulator of laws of planetary motions?

Some times the earth passes exactly between moon and the sun this condition is known as?

The light coming from stars gives the idea of their?

Light takes nearly 4 years to reach us from the nearest star. What is the distance between that star and the earth?

The largest number of natural satellites (or moons) that any one of the planets of the solar system has is?

Twelve constellations referred to as zodiac, are?

The sun consists mostly of?

Name two planets which appear as 'morning star' in the eastern sky and 'evenig star' in the western sky?

Black holes are stellar objects which?

Who was the second to observe sun-spots after Ibn Zubir?

Operation Path Finder is a mission to?

Which of the following makes the planet Saturn unique in the solar family?

The planets Neptune's orbit around the sun takes about?

Which of the following planets has almost the same mass,size and density as the earth?

A 'black hole' is a body in space which does not allow any radiation to come out.This property is due to its?

Which of the following planets reflects back the highest percentage of light it receives from the sun than any other planet of the solar system?

What is the rank of the earth in the solar system in terms of size?

How many times is the sun bigger in size than the earth?

The distance of the planets from the sun in the increasing order is?