General Studies – Science

General Studies questions and answers for improving Knowledge.

NATURE OF UNIVERSE

1. The stars are not scattered regularly in the space, occurs in clusters described as Galaxies or Nebulas.

2. Each galaxy may contains 100 million stars.

3. Earth’s own galaxy is called as Milky way.

4. Milky way contains 1,00,000 million stars.

5. The light from the nearest star takes to reach the Earth is 4 years.

6. The ray of the light from the sun to reach the Earth is 8 minutes.

7. Light takes to reach the Earth from the Moon is only a second.

SOLAR SYSTEM IN THE UNIVERSE

1.The planets which can see with the naked eye was Mercury, Uranus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn.

2. The planets which can be seen only through telescope are Neptune and Venus.

3. Before sunrise or sunset, the planets can see for few hours are Mercury and Venus.

4. The rings of saturn is visible though a Telescope.

5. The moving star is Venus.