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Solar systems : Ours and Beyond
Solar systems : Ours and Beyond
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our solar system and other known systems
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IF an accretion disk does not have enough material for nuclear fusion, then a __ will form
Moon
Brown Dwarf
sub-solar body
supernova
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a ____has properties of a star and a planet
Asteroid
Terran Planet
Comet
Brown Dwarf
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the Kepler Space probe uses _____to detect exoplanets
thermal decompression
gravitational lensing
orbital transits
orbital fluctuations
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One way to detect the presence of other exoplanets is to measure____
gravitational fluctuations
orbital transits
both
neither
5
a sunset like in the star wars movie would indicate the presence of a ____
Brown dwarf
Binary star system
sub-terran planet
Jovian planet
6
Solar system formations can be seen in distant galaxies. Our best theory to explain is the __
exoplanetary model
nebular hypothesis
Standard model
Accretion hypothesis
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MOST comets take ____ to make 1 complete orbit
one / two years
ten / twenty years
billions of years
thousands / millions of years
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Many systems beyond our solar system are defined as ____
Intergalatic systems
exoplanetary systems
Binary systems
interstellar systems
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Many Comets orbit an exterior area of the solar system known as the__
van allen belt
Oort Cloud
Nebular belt
Asteroid Belt
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Larger-earth like planets are referred to as ___
Super terran planets
sub-terran planets
hyper sub-terran planets
hyper earths
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Large Gas-Giant like planets are often referred to as _____
gas hypergiants
hyper-space giants
vapor hypergiants
jovian planets
12
earth-like planets, such as Kepler-186f are known as ____planets
subterran
jovian
terran
rocky
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Kepler has confirmed the existence of many exoplanets, most of which are ____
sub-terran
mercurian
terran
Jovian
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of the 1000 confirmed exoplanets by the Kepler space probe, nearly ____ are Gas-giants
730
50
100
25
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Kepler recently discovered 10 Jupiter-like planets. These are known as ____planets
Terran
Jovian
Super-terran
Sub-terran
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astronomers believe that ___ will dominate the universe in the far future
Stars
Terran planets
Brown Dwarfs
Jovian planets
17
only a ____ can create a solar nebula.
True star (nuclear fusion)
Brown Dwarf
"Hot" Jupiter
Supernova
18
Our solar system contains Jovian planets that orbit _____
The interior
near the sun
the exterior of our solar system
beyond the kuiper belt
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K2-33 System is a binary system that contains a red giant and an orbiting ____
Brown dwarf
Gas Hypergiant
Jovian Moon
Terran Planet
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when an accretion disk does not fully form a mature star, a _____is created
hypergiant
red giant
brown dwarf
supernova
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When distant accretion disks form 2 centralized stars, a _____ system is likely
Duet
Eliptical
Binary
Cyclic
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astronomers have observed that many exoplanetary systems are ____
gas giants
Tertiary
Binary
"Hot" Jupiters