Constellations
What Is A Constellation?
A Group of stars in the sky where stars form a recognizeable pattern
Apparent shift in position of an object when the viewer’s position changes
What is the Parallax affect?
A ball of matter that produces heat
What is a star?
a bowl-shaped depression produced by the impact of an object striking a surface
What is a crater?
A satellite orbiting Earth
What is the moon?
The last constellation Kiersten and Sara presented
What is Leo
Who sprinted out of the classroom at the end of Kiersten and Sara's interview
Kiersten?
What star is red
What Is A Red Dwarf?
An Asteroid that causes extinction
What is a Planet Killer?
KREEP
Potassium, Rare Earth Elements, and Phosphorus
Groups of stars smaller than constellations
What are Asterisms?
Wavelength and frequency will change based on the relative motion of the emitter and receiver
What is the Doppler Affect?
universal force of attraction between all matter
what is gravity
flashes of light generated by objects such as meteors entering Earth’s atmosphere
what are shooting stars
What is the dark side
The Biggest Constellation
What Is Hydra
Who Ran Out of the Room at the end of the Telescopes interview preformed by Kiersten and Sara
Kiersten
Einstein’s model of gravity describes this
What is Space and Time
This killed the dinosaurs
What is a meteor
The lunar surface is dominated by this type of rock
Describes position relative to where the Sun rises on the Vernal equinox (March 21)
What is Right Ascension
Intensity of light is inversely proportional to the distance squared from the source
What is the Inverse Square Law?
Stars in equilibrium are called this
What are main sequence stars
Comets’ distinctive tails are the result of this
what is gas and dust being blown off the surface by solar winds
Like other rocky bodies, the Moon features a
crust, mantle, and core structure