World PLANETS IN UNIVERSE General KnowledgeTEST NO.2

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?

The Milky way extends through a distance of?

Which of the following planets is farthest from the sun?

What are sun-spots?

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

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

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

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

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

Super Nova is?

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

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

Black holes are stellar objects which?

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

How many are Satellites (Moons) of Saturn Planet?

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

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

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

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

The sunspots cause?

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

Name two planets lying between the sun and the earth?

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

The visible part of the sun is called?

The biggest star in our galaxy is?

The outermost layer of sun is called?

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

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

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

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

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

Which planet is known as watery planet?

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

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

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

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

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

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

Operation Path Finder is a mission to?

Which of the following planets is called evening star?

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

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

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

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

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

A Comet?

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

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

The sun consists mostly of?

Twelve constellations referred to as zodiac, are?

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

The light coming from stars gives the idea of their?

A star which appears blue' is?

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

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

When and by whom were the rings of Saturn discovered?

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