Astronomy Test

Name:______________________
Score:___ / 60 Team #:________
1) What object is shown above?

1. Jupiter

2. 2MASSJ22282889-431026

3. Andromeda

4. T Tauri

2) How far away is WISE 0855-0714 in nanometers?

____________(Scientific notation please)

3) What constellation is GD 165 a part of?

5. Ophiuchus

6. Bootes

7. Cancer

8. Pegasus

4) What is the apparent magnitude of Kepler-186?

9. +15.65

10. -15.65

11. +7.38

12. -7.38

5) What spectral type is Kepler-186?

 13. B1.5Vnne

14. O7

15. B2Ia

16. M1V

6) How many times more massive is HR 8799 than 51 Pegasi b?

____________

7) How far away is HD 106906b in light years? ___________

8) What constellation is WASP-43b in?

17. Hydra

18. Phoenix

19. Sextans

20. Orion

9) Who discovered T Tauri? ____________

10) Which of these systems consists of 3 or more stars?

21. T Tauri

22. WASP-18

23. WASP-43

24. HD 106906

11) How many stars are classified in the Henry Draper Catalogue?
___________

12) What special pecuilarity would a star with the spectral class of F6[S II]
have?

25. Shell star features

26. Emission lines due to hydrogen

 27. "Forbidden" emission lines

28. N III and He II emission

13) Which spectral class has the strongest hydrogen lines?

29. A

30. O

31. F

32. M

14) What percent of stars in the solar neighborhood are class G?

33. 12.0%

34. 0.5%

35. 9.8%

36. 7.5%

15) What spectral class is our Sun?

37. G2V

38. G5V

39. G8IIIa

40. G0Ib

16) Red dwarfs are in what spectral class?

41. O

42. R

43. M

44. A

17) About what percent of stars in our solar neighborhood are NOT red
dwarfs?

45. 13%

46. 96%

47. 24%

48. 7%

18) If Usain Bolt runs at 44.64km/h, how many hours would it take for him
to run to HL Tauri (assuming he keeps that speed and runs directly in a
straight line and distance stays constant)?_____________ (scientific
notation)

19) How old is HD 95086b in years?____________

20) Which telescope was used to discover HD 95086b?

49. Very Large Telescope

50. The Quite Big Telescope

51. Hubble Space Telescope

52. Massive Telescope

21) What is a type Ia supernova? (4 points)

22) What classification scheme is a type Ia supernova a sub-category of?

___________________

23) What galaxies can type Ia supernova form in?

53. Elliptical

54. Spiral

55. Irregular

56. All of the above

24) What two elements are found in the expanding plasma from a type Ia
supernova?

57. Calcium and Barium

58. Oxygen and Nitrogen

59. Carbon and Oxygen

60. Sulfur and Oxygen

25) What supernova occured in August of 2011 that provided useful

constraints for identifying a progenitor?_______________

26) What is a progenitor star? (4 points)

27) Which 3 people were awarded a nobel prize in physics for their work
with type Ia supernova? (3 points)

28) What did their work indicate evidence of in the universe? (Hint:
Something to do with space itself) (3 points)

29) A planet has a mass of 4.92x1026kg and has a radius of 1.45x104km. If

you are 60.12kg, what is your weight in pounds on this planet? (Hint: it's a
LOT. You'd die.) (4 points)

30) Research on Type Ia supernovae has led to the improved value of what
constant?

61. Pi

62. Hubble constant

63. The speed of light

64. Fine structure constant

31) When was the most recent observation of a supernova in the Milky Way?

32) What is stellar evolution? (2 points)

33) Draw and label (start with main sequence):

65. The life cycle of a small sized star (4 points)

 66. The life cycle of a medium sized star (4 points)

67. The life cycle of a large sized star (4 points)

34) What element is the degenerate matter on the surface of a neutron star at
the beginning of its formation? __________

35) What property limits the compression of neutrons during the creation
and lifetime of a neutron star? _________________

Bonus: "Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy ice cream, which is
basically the same thing!" Being the ice cream enthusiast you are, you took
this quote to heart. Your goal is to buy as much ice cream as possible and
store it in a large sphere in your secret base in the middle of space. If 1.89
liters of ice cream costs $7.98 and the density of ice cream is 0.9kg/L, how
much money would it cost to buy enough ice cream to naturally create a
black hole?

(5 points)