December 24, 2019September 25, 2020 00:05:00 Welcome to the Luca Spot Quiz! Test your Astronomy proficiency by attending this quiz online. 1. The last stage in the evolution of the Sun. Black hole White dwarf Red giant 2. Famous Indian scientist who studied evolution of stars. She is also the present director of Indian Institute of Astrophysics. Aparna Venkatesan Archana Pai Annapurni Subramaniam 3. This equation helps explain the tremendous amount of energy emitted by stars. Who derived this equation? Eddington Isaac Newton Albert Einstein 4. In which Indian state you would see this huge telescope (Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope -GMRT)? Tamil Nadu Maharashtra Karnataka 5. Which one of these is a red giant? Karthika (Pleiades) Rohini (Aldebaran) Rudra (Sirius) 6. Jantar Mantar was established by; Jai Singh Akbar Aurangzeb 7. This is a sketch of an observatory that existed in Thiruvananthapuram. Which king established this? Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma Chithira Thirunal Balarama Varma Marthanda Varma 8. The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Ray Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba for detecting these particles. Which are these ? gamma rays photons neutrinos 9. Scientist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for studying energy production in stars. George Gamow Hans Bethe Richard Feynman 10. Where is this radio telescope? Pune Ooty (udagamandalam) Kodaikanal Name Phone Number PreviousNextNext Time is Up! Time's up
