101. Who wrote ancient cosmological treatise Almagest?
Ptolemy
102. 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
103. What is Big Bang Theory?
104. The science which deals with the nature and origin of the universe is known as?
Cosmology
105. Founder of Scientific Astronomy?
Hoffmann
106. A congregation of millions or billions of stars held together by gravity?
Galaxy
107. How many different kinds of galaxies are there?
108. Which American astronomer classified the galaxies into spiral elliptical and irregular types?
Edwin Hubble
109. Our galaxy milky way is a?
Spiral Galaxy
110. Which galaxy is called as the twin of our galaxy, the milky way?
M-31
111. Group of stars that form certain shapes or pattern are called?
Constellations
112. The pole star is a part of the ........ constellation?
Ursa Minor
113. Where is Lyra?
Lyra is a summer constellation.
114. The biggest constellation is?
Hydra
115. Which constellation is known as Hunter?
Orion
116. Father of modern space science?
Galileo Galilei
117. Oldest of all the constellations?
Leo
118. Which constellation is called by the name Milk- clipper?
Saggitarius
119. Where is Taurus?
Taurus extends from the celestial equator north to a little above 30° north declination.
120. The two nearest galaxies to our milky way?
Large Magellanic cloud and small Magellanic cloud
121. The galaxy nearer to our galaxy milky way?
Andromeda Galaxy
122. Milkyway belongs to a cluster of some 24 galaxies called?
Local group
123. Energy is transferred from the Sun to Earth mainly by?
electromagnetic waves
124. The best evidence that Earth spins on its axis is provided by?
apparent shifts in the swing of a Foucault pendulum
125. Existence of galaxies beyond milky way was first demonstrated by?