rvsundaram, Author at AmazingPhysicsForAll

Astronomy Quiz

An easy quiz on astronomy. Check how much you know in astronomy. The quiz is not timed. You can take as many times as you like.

An easy quiz on the topic of Optics. Check your knowledge in Optics. The quiz is not timed. You can take as many times as you like.

The Sun is the lone host star of our solar system. How and when was it born? What powers the Sun? What happens when the Sun’s life ends?

Know the planet Venus, our Earth’s closest planetary neighbor. Why the surface of Venus is so hot? Why it rotates in the backward direction?

Earth seems to be the only planet that supports life in the solar system. How life started 3.8 billion year ago on Earth is a big mystery.

Mars, the fourth planet from the Sun, is our closest planetary neighbor like Venus. The other name of Mars is ‘the red planet’.

Asteroids are pulverized remnants of building blocks of a planet that failed to form. Asteroid-belt is between the orbits of Mars & Jupiter.

Jupiter, largest of all the planets in our solar system, is composed of hydrogen and helium, and most of it is in the form of liquid hydrogen.

Saturn, the sixth planet, is the second largest planet. It is a gas giant, and mostly composed of hydrogen and helium, like Jupiter.

Uranus is an ice giant, and is the third largest in the solar system. Twenty-seven small moons and thirteen faint rings orbit Uranus.