26. The scientific study of a heavenly bodies is called?
Astronomy
27. How many kms is an Astronomical Unit (AU) in terrestrial measurements?
149597870700 metres or about 150 million kilometres (93 million miles)
28. In which book, Nicholas Copernicus, wrote that the Sun is the centre of Universe, that marked the beginning of modern astronomy?
De Revolution Orbium Coelestium
29. Who wrote ancient cosmological treatise Almagest?
Ptolemy
30. Which Greek astronomer of 150 BC compiled a catalogue of the position of more than 800 stars besides establishing a magnitude scale to measure star brightness, that is still in use?
Hipparchus
31. What is Big Bang Theory?
32. The science which deals with the nature and origin of the universe is known as?
Cosmology
33. Founder of Scientific Astronomy?
Hoffmann
34. A congregation of millions or billions of stars held together by gravity?
Galaxy
35. How many different kinds of galaxies are there?
36. Which American astronomer classified the galaxies into spiral elliptical and irregular types?
Edwin Hubble
37. Our galaxy milky way is a?
Spiral Galaxy
38. Which galaxy is called as the twin of our galaxy, the milky way?
M-31
39. Group of stars that form certain shapes or pattern are called?
Constellations
40. The pole star is a part of the ........ constellation?
Ursa Minor
41. Where is Lyra?
Lyra is a summer constellation.
42. The biggest constellation is?
Hydra
43. Which constellation is known as Hunter?
Orion
44. Father of modern space science?
Galileo Galilei
45. Oldest of all the constellations?
Leo
46. Which constellation is called by the name Milk- clipper?
Saggitarius
47. Where is Taurus?
Taurus extends from the celestial equator north to a little above 30° north declination.
48. The two nearest galaxies to our milky way?
Large Magellanic cloud and small Magellanic cloud
49. The galaxy nearer to our galaxy milky way?
Andromeda Galaxy
50. Milkyway belongs to a cluster of some 24 galaxies called?