Astro Terms
Astro Concepts
People and Places
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An arbitrary grouping or pattern of stars in the sky.
What is a constellation?
100
A red giant.
What is the name for an old, dying star?
100
Carl Sagan.
Who hosted a famous series on astronomy in the late 1970s.
100
Stellarium.
What is the name of a computer program that faithfully models the night sky seen from any place on earth at any time?
100
Atoms.
What is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons?
200
Apparent magnitude.
What is number astronomers assign to the relative brightness of a star seen in the sky?
200
The hot, dense centers of stars.
Where do atoms ultimately come from?
200
The Milky Way galaxy.
What is the name of the vast island of stars our solar system belongs too.
200
Focal length.
What is the distance at which a positive lens will make an image of something infinitely far away?
200
Black Hole.
What is name for a stellar remnant that is so dense, even light cannot escape?
300
A nebula.
What do you call a cloud of gas in space that forms stars?
300
The celestial sphere.
What is the imaginary model astronomers use to envision the motions of the stars, sun, moon and planets in the sky?
300
Galileo.
Who invented the telescope?
300
92
How many different elements are there?
300
The stars.
What is the ultimate source of the ingredients for an apple pie?
400
Focal length.
What is the distance at which a positive lens will make an image of something infinitely far away?
400
A parsec.
What is the distance unit that correspondence to a star having a parallax motion of on arc second?
400
Cambridge University, England.
At what university did scientists first understand the true nature of atoms?
400
Field of View.
What is the angle of sky that you set in computer programs to model the sky?
400
A neutron star.
What is the type of "dead" star has the densest matter?
500
A supernova.
What is an exploding star called?
500
Fusing hydrogen into helium in nuclear reactions.
How does the sun derive it's energy?
500
Supernova. More particularly the Crab Supernova.
What is name of the stellar event that Native Americans drew on a rock overhang in New Mexico?
500
Infinity.
What is the name for the number that is bigger than any other number?
500
The end most star in the Big Dipper's bowl.
What is Dubhe?
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