What is spiral galaxy, irregular galaxy, elliptical galaxy, and the milky way
100
Name the two types of telescopes.
What are refracting, and reflecting telescopes
100
What are based on the observation of bodies in our solar system of the modern calendar?
What is the years, months, and days
100
What are the clouds in space called?
What is a nebulas
200
When you look at white light through a glass prism, you see a rainbow of colors called what?
What is a spectrum
200
What are the 2 contents of galaxies?
What are gas clouds and star clusters
200
What are optical telescopes?
What are the most common type of telescope
200
Who were the two astronomers that thought the stars were at the edge of the universe?
What is Claudius Ptolemy, and Nicolaus Copernicus
200
What is the cloud of gas and dust that formed our solar system?
What is a solar nebula
300
The pattern of lines in a star's absorption spectrum shows some of the elements that are in the what
What is the star's atmosphere
300
Name the 2 types of clusters and define them.
what is an open cluster which are groups of closely grouped stars, and global clusters which are groups of stars that look like a ball
300
This giant mechanism orbits the earth and can see things and places very far away in space. It also takes pictures which are sent back to Earth for scientists to research.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
300
What contributions did Brahe and Kepler make to astronomy?
What is a wealth of data, and laws of planetary motion
300
Name the structure and atmosphere of the sun
What is the corona, chromosphere, photosphere, convective zone, radiative zone, and core
400
What is a parallax?
What is a star's apparent shift in position
400
What are among most distant objects?
What are quasars
400
What do nonoptical telescopes detect?
What is radiation that cannot be seen by human eye.
400
What happens in 1 year(on the modern calendar)?
What is the Earth completes one orbit around the sun
400
What is nuclear fusion?
What is the process by which two or more low-mass nuclei join together to form another nucleus
500
Because a star's atmosphere absorbs colors of light instead of emitting them, the spectrum of a star is called what?
What is absorption spectrum
500
What year did Hubble classify galaxies and what was the telescope he named called?
What is the year of 1920 and the telescope called Hubble Space Telescope
500
How does the atmosphere affect astronomical observations?
What is that it block most electromagnetic radiation
500
Who helped explain the observations of the scientist who came before him?
What is Isaac Newton
500
The sun's magnetic fields tend to slow down the activity in the what?