Looking Beyond
used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.
What are telescopes?
Rocks located between Mars and Jupiter
What is the Asteroid Belt?
This is the largest planet featuring the great red spot
What is Jupiter?
Early astronomers grouped the night sky in what is known as
What is a Constellation?
Charon, Hydra, and Nix
What are the moons of Pluto?
These telescopes detect visible light.
What are optical telescopes?
Once was a planet but is no longer.
What is Pluto?
Known as the blue planet
What is Neptune?
Known as the home Galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
mixtures of particles of rock, ice, and dust held loosely together as they orbit the Sun in stretched-out elliptical orbits
What are comets?
The reason optical telescopes work better in space.
What is the sky is darker, and there is no weather to interfere with the telescopes?
They descend through the atmosphere with a fiery glow
What is Meteor?
This planet has a runaway greenhouse effect
What is Venus?
Our Sun is located here on the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram
What is the Main Sequence?
This causes meteors to glow
What is friction?
The first optical space telescope.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
Has 53 known moons with an additional 29 moons awaiting confirmation of their discovery.
What is Saturn?
Rotates east to west as well as on its side.
What is Uranus?
These enormous stars are located in the upper right on the H-R diagram
What is a Red Giant?
Invisible matter that revels itself to us by its gravitational effects.
What is Dark Matter?
The large, artificial satellite that orbits Earth and carries people from Canada, U.S., Russia, Japan.
What is the International Space Station?
Ceres, Eris, Makemake, and Haumea
What are dwarf planets?
Titan is its natural satellite.
What is Saturn?
The remains of a supergiant star that has collapsed into itself.
What is a Black Hole?
A well-known impact crater in the United States
What is the Barringer Meteor Crater?