Ricardo Gondelles
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Some history to regard… Heliocentric Theory demonstrated finally that the Earth and planets revolved around the Sun indeed. Who was its author?
- Johannes Kepler (Germany)
- Nicolaus Copernicus (Poland)
- Galideo Galilei (Italy)
- Tycho Brahe (Denmark)
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A question for stargazers… Deneb, one of the brightest stars in the sky, shines in what constellation?
- Centaurus (the Centaur)
- Boötes (the Plowman)
- Leo (the Lion)
- Cygnus (the Swan)
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Comet Halley makes itself visible every:
- 26 years
- 75 years
- 110 years
- 58 years
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This is an easy one… What’s the name of the galaxy where our Solar System is located?
- Milky Way
- Great Magellan Cloud
- Andromeda
- Sombrero
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Which one of these nebulae is a dark one?
- Lagoon
- Orion
- Horsehead
- Crab
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What’s the distance of Andromeda Galaxy from our Solar System?
- 1 million light-years
- 2,5 million light-years
- 150 thousand light-years
- 200 thousand light-years
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Who was the discoverer of Lagoon Nebula in Sagitarius constellation?
- William Herschel, 1774
- Guillaume le Gentil, 1747
- Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1813
- Edwin Hubble, 1929
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What type of star is the Sun:
- A red giant star
- A blue giant star
- A yellow dwarf star
- A white dwarf star
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A harder question… In the Doppler Shift scale, if light captured from a moving stellar object tends to red shade in color range, it means that…
- … the object always keeps the same distance to us.
- … the object is getting closer to us.
- … the objetc is revolving around us.
- … the object is getting away from us.
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Which among these is the biggest star discovered so far in the Universe?
- VY Canis Majoris
- Mu Cephei
- S Persei
- NML Cygni
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What is the man-made object that has traveled farthest from Earth?
- Voyager 1
- Cassini-Huygens
- Pionneer 10
- Juno
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The unit of length used to measure huge distances in the Universe is the parsec. How many light-years does it have?
- 10.2 light-years
- 5.6 light-years
- 3.26 light-years
- 4.5 light-years
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For general knowledge… Who was the fist human to travel into space?
- Neil Armstrong
- Valentina Tereshkova
- John Glenn
- Yuri Gagarin
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What is the name for stars that experiment a gravitational collapse to suddenly increase greatly in brightness?
- Binary
- Cepheid
- Supernova
- Pulsating
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More history to finish… What was the name of first man-made satellite launched in history?
- Sputnik 1
- Aryabhata
- Explorer 1
- Vanguard 1
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