The Stars and Constellations
The Stars and Constellations: Overview
This topic covers concepts, such as, Stars, Pole Star, Constellation, Ursa Major, Orion, Great Bear, Leo Major, Cassiopeia, The Nearest Star to Earth, Unit of Distance, Light Year & Sirius etc.
Important Questions on The Stars and Constellations
The symbol is used to represent which unit in astronomy?

It is convenient to express the distance between heavenly bodies in kilometres.

List two units used for the measurement of distances between heavenly bodies.

Why are the distances between heavenly bodies are not expressed in the units of meters or kilometres?

Ursa-major is also known by the name of _____.

Great Bear is a constellation.

"Great Bear is a set of stars in a specific pattern in the northern hemisphere". Explain about this statement.

Which of the following is the other name for the 'Great bear'?

Great Bear is another name of Ursa-major.

How many zodiac constellations are there?

The people who live in the _____ hemisphere cannot see polestar.

What are the groups of stars in the sky?

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Which of the following is not a member of the solar system?

Astronomers have divided the sky into _____ constellations.

_____ star is nearest to our solar system after the sun.

In the _____ (peripheral/core) of the sun, hydrogen gas fuses with the liberation of energy.

Stars appear to move from east to west because

Stars appear as points to us, but sun do not because

_____(Ursa Major/Ursa Minor) is a large constellation which covers a large part of the sky.
