Un-Answered Questions { Astronomy }

What is the name for the celestial body of interstellar gas and dust where stars are sometimes born?

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The 29 days it takes the moon to complete an orbit around the earth is called a?

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A meteor that reaches the surface of the earth is more accurately called a?

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Is the gravitational pull on an object equalized if the object is at the centre of a planet, i.e. Surrounded by the mass of the planet, which is creating the gravity?

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Which of the is not another name for the pleiades?

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The celestial coordinate analogous to latitude is called?

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Name the part of the sun that we can see without any instruments?

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When a superior planet is at quadrature in reference to the earth, what is its elongation in degrees?

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Maria on the moon are?

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Astronomers usually detect the electromagnetic emissions of a single neutron star in what single form?

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What is the thinnest layer of the suns atmosphere?

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How many half- moons are there in a lunar cycle?

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Which of the pulsating variable star whose brightness varies in a very regular time period of about 1-50 days?

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According to keplers third law, plotting the squares of the periods of the planet against the cubes of the semi- major axes of their orbits will result in what sort of graph?

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The magellan clouds are actually what type of celestial body?

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