December 24, 2019September 25, 2020 Welcome to the Luca Spot Quiz! Test your Astronomy proficiency by attending this quiz online. 1. The 2002 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to Ray Davis and Masatoshi Koshiba for detecting these particles. Which are these ? photons neutrinos gamma rays 2. Who first designed telescopes like these with two convex lenses?. Isaac Newton Johannes Kepler Galileo Galilei 3. What type of a telescope is this? Keplerian Newtonian Galilean 4. Pulsars are actually _______. Red giants Neutron Stars White dwarfs 5. The scientist who proved that stars consists mainly of Hydrogen and Helium. Jocelyn Bell Cecilia Payne Vera Rubin 6. Who is this scientist showing his observations to priests ? Tycho Brahe Isaac Newton Galileo Galilei 7. This is the Chandra X-ray Observatory named after S Chandrasekhar. Who launched this? ISRO ESA NASA 8. Who drew these famous pictures of the Moon? Jahannes Kepler Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei 9. To which great astronomer did this observatory belong. Tycho Brahe Galileo Galilei Johannes Kepler 10. 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 Name Phone Number Time is Up! Time's up
