Scientist
Telescope
Distance
Vocabulary
Misc.
100
Who made the 1st reflecting telescope?
Who is Sir Isaac Newton
100
Instrument that makes objects appear closer.
What is a telescope
100
How long would it take a light froma star 3,000 light years away to reach Earth?
What is 3,000 years
100
Studies how the universe formed
What is a cosmologist
100
Invented rockets almost 800 years ago
Who is the Chinese
200
Who used the first reflecting telescope to view the stars.
Who is Galileo
200
A lens that is thicker in the middle than at the edges is known as a
What is a convex lens
200
An astronomical unit is equal to a distance of _____ million km.
What is 150 million km
200
A natural or artifical object orbiting a body in space.
What is a satellite
200
The part of the radio telescope which collects and focuses radio waves given off by objects in outer space.
What is the antenna
300
Founded the project known as SETI: Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence.
Who is Dr. Frank Drake
300
The part of a telescope that magnifies or enlarges, the image
What is the eyepiece
300
How many kilometers away from Earth is the nearest star?
What is 40 trillion
300
The curved path of one object around another object in space.
What is orbit
300
The speed a rocket must reach to excape the pull of Earth's gravity.
What is 40,000 km/hr
400
American engineer, who in 1932 heard the first radio signals from space.
Who is Karl Jansky
400
The part of a telescope that collects light and brings the image back into focus
What is the objective
400
Where is the Hale telescope located?
Where is Mt. Palomar, California
400
The scientist whom studies the planets in the solar system.
Who is a planetologist
400
Besides the sun, what is the nearest start to Earth?
What is Proxima Centauri
500
Made a radio map of hte Milky Way Galaxy
Who is Grote Reber
500
How much more light gathering power would a telescope with a 50-cm objective lens have than a telescope with a 25-cm objective lens?
What is 4 times more
500
The time it takes light from the sun to reach Earth is
What is 8 minutes
500
The apparent change in the position of a distant object when seen from 2 different places.
What is parallax
500
The planet Voyager 2 reached in 1989.
What is Neptune
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