- Which is the oldest Satellite orbiting the earth?
- What is the common name of the Galaxy we inhabit?
- Where is the ‘Sea of Showers’?
- Which is the only day named after a planet?
- Who is considered to be the ‘Father of Modern astronomy’?
- Which is the only clockwise-rotating planet?
- Which constellation represents a hunter with a Club and Shield?
- What is the outer Layer of the earth’s atmosphere called?
- Who invented the first Astronomical Telescope and when was it invented?
- What is the collective name given to the Sun and the group of bodies which revolve around it?
- What is a Supernova?
- A comet named after a British astronomer appears at an interval of 76 years. Name the Comet and the year when it last appeared.
- What is Ursa Minor?
- (a) What is the name for the scientific study of heavenly bodies?
(b) What Science deals with the structure of the Universe and its origin?
- Who were the authors of these Classic “Space” stories?
- “From the Earth to the Moon”
- “The First Man on the Moon”
- What is the correct term for a Shooting Star?
- What is a Nebula?
- Where is the ‘Sea of Tranquility’?
- Who propounded the theory that ‘the Earth revolves round the Sun’?
- What are the four elements according to the ancient Greeks?
Answers
- The Moon
- The Milky Way
- The Moon
- Saturday
- Nicolas Copernicus
- Venus
- Orion
- The Stratosphere
- Galileo, in 1609
- The Solar System
- The explosion of a dying star
- Halley’s Comet, named after Sir Edmund Halley. It last appeared in 1986.
- A group of stars in the Northern Hemisphere, meaning “The Little Bear”.
- (a) Astronomy, (b) Cosmology
- (a) Jules Verne, (b) H.G. Wells
- A Meteor
- Nebulae are large clouds of dust and gas in space
- The moon
- Aristarchus, in 290 B.C.
- Earth, Air, Fire and Water
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