World PLANETS IN UNIVERSE General KnowledgeTEST NO.2

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

The visible part of the sun is called?

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

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

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

The sunspots cause?

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

How many are Satellites (Moons) of Saturn Planet?

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 has almost the same mass,size and density as the earth?

The outermost layer of sun is called?

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

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

A star which appears blue' is?

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

What are sun-spots?

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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

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

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

Which of the following planets is farthest from the sun?

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

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?

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

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

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

Twelve constellations referred to as zodiac, are?

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

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

Operation Path Finder is a mission to?

The biggest star in our galaxy is?

The Milky way extends through a distance of?

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

The sun consists mostly of?

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

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

When and by whom were the rings of Saturn discovered?

The light coming from stars gives the idea of their?

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

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

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

A Comet?

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

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

Which of the following planets is called evening star?

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

Black holes are stellar objects which?

Which planet is known as watery planet?

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

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

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

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

Name two planets lying between the sun and the earth?

Super Nova is?