Big System
How many planets revolve around the Sun?
Eight
What is the name for the pattern or group of stars that people imagined looked like figures, objects, or animals?
Constellation
He was an ancient Greek scientist who first developed a heliocentric model.
Aristarchus
The shape of the orbit of the planet revolves around the sun.
Ellipse
These are giant balls of superheat gas
star
What is the name of the galaxy we live in?
Milky Way
This constellation looks like a bear.
Ursa Major
He said Earth’s rotation and revolution around the sun explained stars move.
Nicolaus Copernicus
The Earth-Centered View of the Solar System
Geocentric View
A body that orbits a planet is called a
Satellite
The name of our galaxy comes from this substance.
Spilled Milk
Constellation changed with these different periods of time.
Seasons
His calculations proved that the shape of a planet’s orbit is an ellipse, not a circle.
Johannes Kepler
The Sun-centered view of the Solar System.
Heliocentric view
A celestial object consisting of a nucleus of ice and dust and, when near the sun, a “tail” of gas and dust particles pointing away from the sun.
Comet
Do we live in a_______System
Solar System
This constellation is a lion
Leo
He began to observe that planets did not move in a circle around the sun.
Tycho Brahe
This ancient person created a heliocentric model.
Ptolemy
This Comet passes by Earth.
Hailey’s Comet
True or False there is more than one galaxy.
True
Orian is a hunter what is he holding?
A Bow
He proved the Earth was not the center of the solar system by studying the moons of Jupiter.
Galileo
Which Planet’s moon did Galileo observe with his telescope?
Jupiter
the great hunter, in Greek mythology
Orion