Light/Telescopes
Rockets/Space Exploration
Stars
Galaxies/Cosmology
Scientists
100
Seen by the eye.
What is visible light?
100
First man to orbit Earth.
What is John Glenn?
100
Sun falls here on the H-R Diagram.
What is main sequence?
100
We live here.
What is Milky Way Galaxy?
100
Used epicycles to explain retrograde motion of planets.
What is Ptolemy?
200
Tells us the elements in a star.
What is emission spectra?
200
This type of fuel allowed rockets to go farther.
What is liquid fuel?
200
List the order of the color classifications for stars in order. Remember is starts with O.
What is O B A F G K M?
200
The Milky Way is this type of galaxy.
What is spiral galaxy?
200
First to put the Sun in the center.
What is Copernicus?
300
Use mirrors and lenses to see far away objects.
What is reflecting telescope?
300
Newton's 1st law says all objects have _______.
What is inertia?
300
Stars 3 times as big as the sun do this when they die.
What is supernova?
300
Current theory on how the universe started.
What is Big Bang Theory?
300
His three laws of planetary motion explain the orbits of the planets.
What is Kepler?
400
Used in remote controls.
What is infrared waves?
400
F=ma
What is Newton's 2nd law?
400
This is what our sun will become in about 4.5-5.5 billion years.
What is a red giant?
400
A globular cluster is _________ an open cluster.
What is older than?
400
His three laws of motion and law of universal gravitation explain the cosmos.
What is Newton?
500
Earth based telescopes are blurred by the ________.
What is atmosphere?
500
ISS and MIR are examples of this.
What are space stations?
500
H-R stands for __________.
What is Hersprung-Russell?
500
Study of how the universe came to be.
What is cosmology?
500
American who build rockets.
What is Goddard?
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