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134.The ring nebula is an example of a planetary nebula. It is:
AN EXPANDING RING OF GAS RELEASED FROM A DYING
STAR
135 After what geophysical occurrence might you see Bishop's Ring around the Sun?
VOLCANIC ERUPTION
136. A black hole with the mass of the earth would be the size of:
A MARBLE
137.How many people have set foot on the Moon?
TWELVE
138.How many MANNED moon landings have there been?
SIX
139.Which planets are never visible at midnight?
MERCURY AND VENUS
140.Whose paradox asks why the sky is not ablaze with starlight if the universe is infinite in extent and
uniformly filled with stars?
OLBER'S
141.On one of the moon landings astronauts left an object on the moon. Scientists periodically bounce a
laser beam off of this object to measure the distance between the earth and the moon. What is this object?
MIRROR
142.What are Schmidt, Cassegrainian, and Galilean examples of?
TELESCOPES
143 How large of an angle is the tilt of the Earth's spin axis from the normal to the ecliptic plane?
23 AND 1/2 DEGREES
144.What are the two bright spots of light on opposite sides of a halo around the sun called?
SUN DOGS
145.What was most significant about the Apollo 11 flight?
IT WAS THE FIRST MANNED LANDING ON THE MOON
146.What are the Geminids (pron: JEM-in-ids), the Perseids (pron: PER-see-ids), and the Leonids (pron:
LEE-o-nids)?
METEOR SHOWERS
147.Laika, the first living creature to orbit the earth was what type of animal?
ANSWER: DOG
148.Most stars are cooler than the sun. These stars, the planets, interstellar clouds and star-forming
regions emit most of their radiant energy in the:
INFRARED
149.If the DIAMETER of a reflector's objective mirror is doubled, how many times as great is its
light-gathering power?
4 TIMES
150.Astronomers use cepheids principally as measures of what? Is it:
DISTANCE