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Gases above Io's surface produced a ghostly glow that could be seen at visible wavelengths (red, green, and violet). Credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona.

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1 Which of the following are green radiation astronomy phenomena associated with the Sun?

the color of the upper rim as seen from Earth
an excess brightness at or near the edge of the Sun
the iron XIV green line
neutron emission
polar coronal holes
meteor emission
changes in the line-blanketing

2 True or False, The Hubble Space Telescope currently uses the Wide Field Planetary Camera (PC-2) with its F492M filter among others for green astronomy.

TRUE
FALSE

3 Which of the following is not a characteristic of green astronomy?

boron
wavelength range of 495-570 nm
chlorophyll
greenstones
phytoplankton

4 Before the current era and perhaps before 6,000 b2k which classical planet may have been green?

5 True or False, The Hβ emission line does not appear when the F492M filter is used on the Hubble Space Telescope because its wavelength is 486.1 nm.

TRUE
FALSE

6 Alpha Centauri A as a star has what green astronomy property?

it's a primordial population III star
it passes once a year across the Lockman Hole
silicates have been discovered in its interior structure
it has a surface temperature of 5790 K
optical reflectance studies have found evidence of magnesium
it has a surface temperature of ~700 K

7 Complete the text:

Capella B has a surface temperature of approximately

, is spectral type

, has an orbital period with Capella A of about

, and is a

variable.

8 True or False, Any small luminous green dot appearing in the cloudless portion of the night sky, especially with a fixed location relative to other such dots is most likely to be an active galactic nucleus.

TRUE
FALSE

9 When ionization cones are present, what green characteristics are usually readily observed?

O III green emission line
green continua
biconical structure
a common cone axis and apex
ionized gas
neon clouds

10 For web colors the RGB decimal code (0 255 0) is what color?

11 True or False, In hexadecimal code, a hex triplet, #008000 or 00 80 00 is green.

TRUE
FALSE

12 Which of the following is not a prominent feature associated with the greenness response?

M cone cells
a green light source
L cones
"bluish green" 493-498 nm
"yellowish green" 530-559 nm
"yellow green" 559-570 nm

13 Which of the following is not a phenomenon usually associated with solar wanderers?

green aurora
oxygen
production of 7Be
carbon or C2
airglow
nitrogen
olivine

14 Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with a comet?

airglow
elongated dust particles
high albedo
olivine
Rayleighs
coronal mass ejection

15 True or False, A green light coming from a nebula may be due to oxygen illuminated by a stellar wind.

TRUE
FALSE

16 Which of the following emission/absorption phenomena are associated with green astronomy?

Helium lines at 501 and 505 nm
the strong C2 (1,2) band
nitrogen emission in plasmas at 566.934 nm from N VIII
Helium emission line at 5876 Å
neutral iron line at 526.96 nm
Calcium yellow line at 569.4 nm

17 Green astronomy observation is performed all around the surface of the Earth by?

18 True or False, Bremsstrahlung radiation may be a source of the green continuum.

TRUE
FALSE

19 Which of the following are phenomena usually associated with fluorine emission?

fluorine emission lines in the green are relatively weak
fluorine lines in the near infrared are usually much stronger than the green lines
F I has lines in the green
F II has lines in the green
F III has at least one line in the green
the Fraunhofer E line

20 The chromium +1 ion has an emission line often observed in solar what?

21 True or False, Ground-based observations around the solar limb of the Fe 530.3 line vary greatly among themselves.

TRUE
FALSE

22 Which of the following are likely associated with a green emission line control group?

rocky objects
high peak to background
plasma objects
a G2V photosphere
rotation
watery surface
spots

23 An emission line occurring in the solar corona at 511.603 nm is likely to be from what?

24 True or False, The striking absence of green emission above both polar regions at activity minimum is likely due to iron deficiency.

TRUE
FALSE

25 Which of the following are characteristic of solar green astronomy?

limb faculae
polar coronal holes
black body temperature of the photosphere
the electron neutrino
iron (Fe XIV) green line
neutrons

26 True or False, Airglow is the emission of light by atoms and molecules in the upper atmosphere after they are excited by X-ray radiation.

TRUE
FALSE

27 Phenomena associated with the green vapor above Io are?

collisions with energetic charged particles
Jupiter's magnetic field
aurora-like behavior
dense plumes of volcanic vapor
Galileo spacecraft
Io is in eclipse

28 The Na I green lines at 568.2 and 568.8 nm arise in the what?

29 True or False, Stars of spectral classes F and G, such as our sun, have color temperatures that make them look "greenish".

TRUE
FALSE

30 Which of the following are green observatories in orbit around the Earth?

Chandra X-ray Observatory
Big Bear
TRACE
Kodaikanal
the Hubble
Lomnický štít
McMath-Pierce
SOFIA
Rosetta

31 True or False, Some observed properties of the Sun still defy explanation, such as the degree of Li depletion: the solar Li abundance is roughly a factor of 200 below the meteoritic abundance. This has been confirmed using the lithium 555.2 nm line.

TRUE
FALSE

32 Which of the following are associated with the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope?

a launch location
Fabry-Perot interferometer
a heliostat
a distinctive diagonal shaft that continues underground
a theoretical resolution of 0.07"
NOAA designations

33 "Carroll et al. (1976) detected a number of coincidences between laboratory lines of FeH and weak unidentified what?

34 The auroral green line at 557.7 nm has been suggested as originating from which of the following elemental emission lines?

solid nitrogen
mixtures of oxygen and helium
pure helium
pure oxygen
neon and oxygen mixtures
mercury
iron

35 True or False, The Mauna Kea Observatories are used for scientific research across the electromagnetic spectrum from visible light to radio, and comprise the largest such facility in the world.

TRUE
FALSE

36 True or False, The O I 557.7 nm line occurs in some meteor wake spectra generally confined to the height interval of 80 - 90 km.

TRUE
FALSE

37 Which of the following phenomena are associated with earthshine?

reflected earthlight
the Moon's night side
the tachocline
a test of vegetation
the Pacific Ocean
ashen light

38 True or False, The zodiacal light has components in the green that are linearly polarized.

TRUE
FALSE

39 True or False, There are clear trends in the significant day-to-day and month-to-month changes in the zodiacal light.

TRUE
FALSE

40 Which of the following is not a characteristic of radiation?

throwing a beam
a stream of charged or neutral particles
the process of calculating the energy of a beam
sending out a traveling ray
a secondary hazard

41 Using the equation what temperature corresponds approximately to a Planckian peak wavelength of 510 nm?

5700 K
5800 K
5900 K
6000 K
5870 K
5880 K

42 True or False, In the first derivative of Planck's equation to generate a wavelength, temperature pair like (495 nm, 6100 K), the constant c2 has units of nm K.

TRUE
FALSE

43 If Osiris in ancient Egyptian mythology/observational astronomy corresponds to Saturn, and Horus is the son of Osiris, what classical planet does Horus correspond to?

the green planet
Mercury
Mars
Uranus
Venus
Jupiter

44 True or False, Telluric mercury lines are light pollution lines occurring in the Martian atmosphere.

TRUE
FALSE

45 Which of the following are characteristic of the telluric mercury green line?

546.1 nm
light pollution at the Calar Alto observatory
a decay product of uranium
mercury vapour lamps
tropospheric scattering
y-band of the ubvy Strömgren photometric system

46 True or False, Green radiation bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events known to occur in the universe.

TRUE
FALSE

47 Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with optical green astronomy?

actuators may be a part of active optics
the Spitzer satellite is the first device in space ever to detect optical green bursts
the Moon
an emission with a wavelength of 520 nm
adaptive optics
airglow emissions

48 Which of the following is not a phenomenon associated with green astronomy?

photographs of the planet Venus taken in 1999
Alpha Centauri A
ionization cones
a moderately intense aluminum line at 5593.302 Å
a xenon emission line at 541.915 nm
the lithium beta line

49 True or False, The dark green filter improves imaging of cloud patterns on Venus.

TRUE
FALSE

50 Observations of comets have benefited greatly from what phenomena of green astronomy?

elongated dust particles
the Rosetta spacecraft
O (1S) metastable line
methane possesses prominent absorption bands in the visible
airglow
the light of the neutral CN-radical

51 Which of the following is a phenomenon associated with nebulae?

green light
oxygen line emission
297.2 nm line
aboard HST the use of the PC-2 and F547M
phosphorus
TiO

52 True or False, The red shift cannot affect green stars.

TRUE
FALSE

53 True or False, The Earth's atmosphere does not transmit green radiation between 480 and 500 nm in wavelength because of water vapor.

TRUE
FALSE

54 Green astronomy may help to detect what type of astronomical object?

a stellar class G dwarf
the hydrogen Balmer alpha line
the photosphere of the Sun
extrasolar planets
lithium
the CMB

55 True or False, The position of the Sun can be determined directly with the use of green astronomy.

TRUE
FALSE

56 Various green radiation observatories occur at different altitudes and geographic locations due to what effect?

the presence of oceans on the Earth
locally available carving tools
light pollution
most astronomical objects are observed at night
currently dormant volcanoes seldom erupt
human habitation increases near an astronomical observatory

57 True or False, The emission of synchrotron light from the Sun may more accurately fit the spectral radiance of the Sun than black body radiation.

TRUE
FALSE

58 True or False, Green Bremsstrahlung radiation is not detected from the Sun because the photosphere isn't ionized enough to produce it.

TRUE
FALSE

59 What green astronomy phenomena are associated with Mars?

it may help with faster-than-light travel
O(1S) lines
ice
polar caps
the Greenwich meridian
it demonstrates that a power law is better than an exponential law

60 True or False, The Mars Exploration Rover uses its green filter to take panoramic mosaics.

TRUE
FALSE

61 Which of the following is not a green characteristic of solar active regions?

iron
green spectral lines are 1.4 % shallower at solar maximum
coronal clouds
spot central meridian passage
a surface coverage of at least 95%.

62 True or False, Naked sunspots seen in Hβ which are devoid of plage are never associated with coronal holes.

TRUE
FALSE

63 The Sun as a star has what green geographical property?

it's a primordial population III star
it passes once a year across the Lockman Hole
silicates have been discovered in its interior structure
optical reflectance studies have found evidence of magnesium
it has a surface temperature of ~700 K
polar coronal holes
it has a longitude and latitude grid system for locating active regions

64 Complete the text:

"In 1999, observations of the Venus

with the

telescope showed that the 5577 Å oxygen green line was a

".

65 True or False, The PC-1 F502N is centered at 501.85 nm with a band pass of 2.97 nm.

TRUE
FALSE

66 When close binary stars are present, what characteristics are readily observed?

iron XIV green line
facular excess brightness
starspots
magnetic poles
flares
neon clouds

67 The population of coronal loops can be directly linked with the?

68 True or False, Coronal loops project into the coronal cloud, through the transition region and the chromosphere.

TRUE
FALSE

69 Which of the following is not a prominent contributor associated with a variable star?

star spots
chromospheric activity
rotation
brightness fluctuations
flares
iron XIV green line

70 Astronauts onboard the International Space Station used a Nikon digital camera to take pictures of what green astronomy phenomenon?

71 True or False, Chemiluminescence caused mainly by oxygen and nitrogen reacting with hydroxyl ions at heights of a few hundred kilometers contributes to airglow.

TRUE
FALSE

72 Which of the following is not a phenomenon usually associated with regions?

a connected part of a space
a tract of green fields
definite extent of a corn field
Capella B
temporal change in green radiation flux
weather

73 Complete the text:

"Auroras result from emissions of

in the Earth's upper

, above 80 km (50 mi), from ionized

atoms regaining an electron, and

and

atoms returning from as excited state to

state.

74 Yes or No, Oxygen emissions can be green or brownish-red depending on the amount of energy absorbed.

Yes
No


Hypotheses

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Main resource: Hypotheses
  1. Green astronomy studies all the astronomical objects of the Solar System.

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