Astronomers
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Up In Space
100
Developed a theory of a sun-centered universe.
What is Copernicus?
100
The simplest optical telescope contains how many lenses.
What is 2 lenses?
100
Is infrared light wave lengths blocked or unblocked
What is unblocked?
100
An instrument that gathers electromagnetic radiation and concentrates it for better observation is this.
What is telescope?
100
This is what ancient cultures used to group the stars in the sky.
What is constellations?
200
Showed that planets and moons stayed in orbit due to gravity.
What is Sir Isaac Newton?
200
The function of the of the objective lens is
What is collects light and forms an image at the back.
200
Is Gamma Rays wave lengths blocked or unblocked
What is blocked?
200
The most common type of telescope is this kind of telescope.
What is optical telescope?
200
These are stars at can be seen at apps times of year and all times of night
What is circumpolar stars?
300
Was one of the first persons to use a telescope to observe celestial bodies.
What is Galileo Gallilei
300
Humans can see radiation from what two color lights.
What is red to blue light?
300
Is visible lights wave lengths blocked or unblocked
What is unblocked?
300
The BLANK of a radio telescope can be more flawed than the lenses and mirrors of an optical telescope.
What is surface?
300
This the distance that light travels in one year
What is light-year?
400
Stated that planets move in elliptical orbit around the sun.
What is Johannesburg Kepler
400
Roughly the amount of time required for the moon to orbit around the Earth.
What is month
400
True or False, a refracting lenses uses mirrors to gather and focus light
What is false?
400
He proved the existence of galaxies other than the Milky Way.
What is Edwin Hubble?
400
If a star or galaxy is moving quickly toward an observer, it's light appears bluer than it normally does, this effect is known as
What is blueshift?
500
Used a mural quadrant to measure the positions of planets and stars.
What is Tycho Brahe
500
The science of the study of the night sky is called.
What is astronomy?
500
True or false, a reflecting lenses uses large mirrors to gather light.
What is true.
500
He developed a theory of an Earth-centered universe in 140CE
What is Ptolemy?
500
The line where the sky and the Earth meet is
What is horizon?
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