The Study Of Light
Tools for studying Space
The Sun
Space Study
Vocab
100
What includes Gamma Rays,X-Rays, Ultraviolet, Visible light, Ainfrared Radiation, Microwaves, and Radio Waves?
Electromagnetic Radiation
100
What is a reflecting telescope?
Concentrated light from distant objects using concave mirror.
100
The outer most portion of the atmosphere is?
Corona
100
________ releases enormous amounts of energy, much of it forms of ultra violet,radio, and x-ray radiation
Solar flares
100
What is a small packet of light energy that form a stream of particles.
Photon
200
What is a small packet of light energy?
Photon
200
Describe how radio waves look like?
Has antenna and big dish.
200
Why do sunspots appear dark?
Because of their temperature
200
The streams of protons and electrons that boil from the corona are?
Solar winds
200
Produced by an incandescent solid liquid or gas under high pressue.
Continuous spectrum
300
Whats produced by a hot gas and under low pressure?
Emission spectrum
300
What was the first telescope built by NASA?
Hubble space
300
The effects of solar flares are called?
Auroras
300
What passes through a relatively cool gas under low pressure?
Absorption Spectrum
300
The study of properties of light that depends on wavelenghts.
Spectroscopy
400
What refers to the perceived change in wavelenght of a wave that is emitted from a source that is moving away or toward an object ?
Doppler effect
400
What are the largest optical telescopes?
Reflectors
400
What do prominences consist of?
Chromospheric gases
400
What is the Doppler effect used for?
To determine if an object in space is moving away or toward earth.
400
When visible light is passes through a cool gas under pressure.
Absorption spectrum
500
Whats an example of continuous spectrum?
The Light bulb
500
To study X-rays, what does NASA use to observe?
Chandra
500
What does each letter represent in Einsteins equation? E,M,C.
E= Energy M= Mass C= Speed of light
500
________ is one of the gases from which the solar system is formed.
Hydrogen
500
Produced by a hot gas under low pressure
Emission Spectrum
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