Other questions in this quiz

2. How long is a solar day?

  • 22 hours 58 minutes
  • 24 hours 4 minutes
  • 24 hours
  • 23 hours 56 minutes

3. Roughly how long does it take for the Moon to orbit the Earth?

  • 18 days
  • 23 hours
  • 7 days
  • 28 days
  • 24 hours

4. How long is a sidereal day?

  • 24 hours
  • 23 hours 56 minutes
  • 24 hours 4 minutes

5. When a distant galaxy is moving away from Earth the light it gives off is which of these two?

  • Red shifted
  • Blue shifted

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Osarieme

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The answer for Question 18 is incorrect because neither Shapley or Curtis were fully correct as Edwin Hubble proved their theories both wrong.

Harriet Robinson

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but it isnt asking who is fully correct it is asking who is correct about one aspect read the question properly and you are more likely to pass exams

Bomsxx

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Osarieme wrote:

The answer for Question 18 is incorrect because neither Shapley or Curtis were fully correct as Edwin Hubble proved their theories both wrong.

Curtis was the one who said the universe was made up of lots of different galaxies each containing billions of stars, so he was technically correct about the number of galaxies, although there was never a proper number.

abi

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excellent quiz, thankyou very much

TheWickedSkengman

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mccracken

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