A Mix Of Science
It's a facula that a facula is a bright spot in the photosphere of this body
The sun
Parachutes" &
"X&Y"
Coldplay
A type of lens where the focal length is shorter than the lens' length is called this, partly from Greek for "afar"
Telephoto
November 3, 1493, gimme a sec, was a... Sunday. No, I'm not a savant, I just know that's when this man sighted the island of Dominica
Columbus
Once thought to be influenced by the Moon's phases, it's a word for sheer craziness
Lunacy
This mammalian-sounding unit of measurement is equal to Avogadro's number
Mole
"Unorthodox Jukebox" &
"24k Magic
Bruno Mars
A DSLR camera is a digital single-lens this
Reflex
In 1503 Ludovico di Varthema dressed as a Muslim & joined a caravan to this holy city with a "temple similar to the Colosseum"
Mecca
It's the difference between your home's value & how much you still owe on it
Equity
This effect named for an Austrian man manifests itself in receding siren noises & cosmic red-shifting expansion
The Doppler effect
"Reasonable Doubt" &
"The Black Album"
Jay-Z
DAILY DOUBLE:His first roll of pictures from a Brownie camera was developed at Pillsbury's Pictures in Old Yosemite Village
Ansel Adams
DAILY DOUBLE: Last name of Niccolò & Maffeo, who in 1271 were given papal letters to present to Kublai Khan
This large bird of prey is known for plucking fish right out of the water
An osprey
Part of a Canadian province is in the name of this current that usually meets the Gulf Stream around Cape Hatteras
The Labrador Current
"Utopia" &
"Astroworld"
Travis Scott
To get a stick motion blur, you can allow more light to pass through your cam by setting a slow speed of this device
The shutter
In 1524 he sighted New York Bay & then "bridged" the Atlantic once again in 1528, when he was eaten by cannibals in the West Indies
Verrazano
Differing by a first letter, one word means to gather data or opinions from a group of people; the other, to provide goods or services
Survey & purvey
About 1.5% of any quantity of the isotope uranium-238 decays to this element every 100 million years
Lead
"Awaken, My Love!" &
"Because the Internet"
Childish Gambino
The name of this German camera company bears the first 3 letters of the company's early leader Ernst Leitz
Leica
In 1497, sailing for the British, he landed in eastern Canada--not sure where--anyway, not Asia as he thought
John Cabot
In England, it referred to people of high birth, high social class, wealthy landowners ranking just below the nobility