. Answer the following questions in brief.
1. What are celestial bodies?
2.
Why do stars look very small in the sky?
3. What is 'Saptarishi Mandal'?
4. Name the planets which are gaseous bodies.
5. Which planet is the closest to Neptune?
Answers
Answer:
answer 1 celestial body is any natural body outside of the Earth's atmosphere. Easy examples are the Moon, Sun, and the other planets of our solar system. But those are very limited examples. The Kuiper belt contains many celestial bodies.
Explanation:
Answer 2 They just appear small because they are so far away. The nearest star to our solar system is 4 light years away, which is 20 trillion miles. The stars of the Big Dipper may all look the same distance away, as if they were pasted on the wall of a giant dome.
answer 3. The Saptarishi (from Sanskrit: सप्तर्षि saptarsi, a Sanskrit dvigu meaning “seven sages”) are the seven rishis who are extolled at many places in the Vedas and Hindu literature. … They are regarded in the Vedas as the patriarchs of the Vedic religion.
Answer:
1) Celestial bodies or heavenly bodies are objects in space such as the sun, moon, planets, and stars. They form a part of the vast universe we live in and are usually very far from us.
2)the stars are very, very far away from our solar system so they appear to be very tiny.
3) The Saptarishi (from Sanskrit: सप्तर्षि saptarṣi, a Sanskrit dvigu meaning "seven sages") are the seven rishis who are extolled at many places in the Vedas and Hindu literature. ... They are regarded in the Vedas as the patriarchs of the Vedic religion.
4) Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are known as the Jovian (Jupiter-like) planets, because they are all gigantic compared with Earth, and they have a gaseous nature like Jupiter's -- mostly hydrogen, with some helium and trace gases and ices.
5)the closest planet to Neptune is Uranus.