Astronomers
The Greek Philosopher who was wrong about almost everything.
Who is Aristotle?
The name of the constellation that contains Polaris.
What is Ursa Minor?
A pseudoscience that uses the positions of the stars and planets to make predictions about future events.
What is astrology.
A technical example or pattern of something; a model.
What is paradigm?
The body part that Tycho Brahe lost.
What is his nose?
The first astronomer to propose the removal of the Gods from nature.
Who is Plato?
The constellation named after a queen.
What is Cassiopea?
The real reason for the orbits of planets.
What is gravity?
The point in the sky directly above an observer.
What is the zenith?
The first moons discovered that did not orbit Earth. (Collective name.)
What are the Galilean Moons?
The first astronomer to use a telescope.
Who is Galileo?
The constellation that contains a galaxy visible to the naked eye.
What is Andromeda?
The rules that planets and other objects follow when orbiting.
What are Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion?
A small circle whose center moves around the circumference of a larger circle. Used in an early solar system model.
What is an epicycle?
The kind of model of the solar system believed in by Tycho Brahe.
What is geoheliocentric?
The astronomer who invented calculus.
Who is Newton?
The number of constellations.
What is 88.
The name for a model of the solar system where the planets orbit the sun.
What is Heliocentric?
The imaginary line that runs from north to south through the highest point in the sky.
What is the meridian?
The brightest star in the night sky.
What is Sirius?
The astronomer who first proposed that the Earth orbited the sun (whose works we still have).
Who is Copernicus?
(Fun Fact: there is evidence that there was another dude name Aristarchus who lived in the 3rd century BCE, as well as a handful of others over time, who proposed heliocentic models, but we don't have any of their works anymore.)
Zeus was holding onto them.
What is the reason Ursa Major and Ursa Minor have such long tails?
A model of the solar system where everything revolves around the earth.
What is geocentric?
The name for a constellation that can be seen all year.
What is circumpolar?
The brightest star as visible from Earth.
What is the Sun?