Photometry
Spectroscopy
Stellar Evolution
Radio Astronomy
Observing Earth
100
This object has an apparent visual magnitude of 12.
What is the full moon?
100
This is the simplest light spectrometer.
What is a glass prism?
100
This cluster of stars contains approximately a few hundred members born in the same interstellar cloud.
What is an open cluster?
100
This country currently has the largest radio telescope in the world.
What is China?
100
Low earth orbit satellites are below this height.
What is 2000 km.
200
This term refers to the number of photons detected vs incident on a CCD.
What is the quantum efficiency?
200
This spectra occurs when electrons drop from higher energy levels to lower.
What is emission spectra?
200
This stage of an average star’s life cycle occurs immediately after its Red Giant phase.
What is the Planetary Nebula phase
200
This type of astronomy differs from radio astronomy in that it is an active observation rather than a passive one.
What is Radar astronomy?
200
This orbit allows a satellite to image the entire globe.
What is a polar orbit?
300
Taking images through several filtered exposures and then combining them to create a color image uses this photometry device.
What is CCD?
300
These seven letters are used to classify stars by their temperature.
What is O, B, A, F, G, K, M?
300
This is the final phase in the life of a massive star when it has completed its supernova phase and is too massive to become a Neutron Star.
What is a Black Hole?
300
Radio astronomy is especially useful in detecting this element.
What is hydrogen.
300
The Global Positioning System used 24 satellites in this type of orbit to provide global service.
What is Medium Earth Orbit.
400
This technique is used to measure the distance to nearby stars.
What is parallax?
400
This effect is used to determine the relative velocities of far away objects.
What is Doppler effect?
400
This type of star has periodic pulsations caused by internal instability.
What is Mira-type variable star.
400
These types of gas require observations at radio wavelengths.
What is Cold interstellar and hot ionized gases.
400
This imaging type is especially useful for topography.
What is radar imaging.
500
This term measure the brightness of a star as it would appear 10 parsecs away.
What is absolute magnitude?
500
This is the energy theorized to drive the expansion of the universe.
What is dark energy?
500
These stars are in stable equilibrium with hydrogen core fusion.
What are main sequence stars?
500
This person was the first to discover cosmic radio waves.
Who is Karl Jansky?
500
This percentage of launched telescopes are currently usable.
What is 13 percent?
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