Astronomers
He invented the telescope.
Who is Galileo?
The shroud of gas and water around some planets and moons is called this.
What is an Atmosphere?
Silver, Water, Change
What is the Moon?
This is one way in which Newton improved upon Galileo's design for the telescope.
What is using a mirror? (etc)
This is what we call a space-rock making a fiery plunge through earth's atmosphere.
What is a meteor?
He identified the gaps in Saturn's rings.
Who is Cassini?
The time is takes a planet to rotate around its axis is called the planet's this
What is Day / Rotational Period?
Red, Feasts, Pomp
What is Jupiter?
This is the name for the most famous space telescope.
What is the Hubble Space Telescope?
The ________________ of Saturn's orbit causes his rings to disappear from view when they are viewed on-edge from Earth.
What is inclination?
He plotted the locations of 777 stars, recorded the appearance of a stella nova in 1572, and calculated the parallax of a comet in 1577.
Who is Tycho (Brahe)?
The lakes and rivers on Titan are not full of water, but are instead full of this, which is normally a gas on Earth.
What is Methane?
Age, Slowness, Time.
What is Saturn?
This is the type of telescope that uses a glass lens to focus light.
What is a refractor?
The Greek phrase aster planetes means this.
What is 'Wandering Stars?'
He improved upon the telescope, and developed the Law of Universal Gravitation (Also called the Law of Gravity).
Who is Isaac Newton?
This is the physical order of the planets.
What is M V E M J S U N?
This is the name of the sphere that the stars were said to be set in.
What is the Empyrean? (Em-pie-ree-an)
Robotic probes sent to traverse the surface of Mars are traditionally called these.
What are rovers?
Asteroid means this.
What is 'star-like'?
Who is Edmund Halley?
This is the name for a series of numbers that indicated there is a planet 'missing' between Mars and Jupiter; a space currently filled by the Asteroid Belt.
What are the Bode-Titius series?
Infortuna Major
What is Mars?
Clyde Tombaugh discovered Pluto using this device.
What is a 'blink comparator'?
What is 'long-hair'?