This is the shape of a galaxy that is shaped like a football.
What is elliptical galaxy?
100
This is how people long ago developed calendars.
What is they studied predictable cycles in the sky?
100
This is why telescopes in space get a more complete picture of space objects.
What is they are beyond Earth's atmosphere?
100
This is the color of the coolest type of star.
What is red?
200
New stars form in a cloud of gas.
What is a nebula?
200
This is a grouping of rocks that points to the rising and setting of the Sun or Moon on certain days of the year.
What is Stonehenge?
200
These are 2 reasons stars are brighter in the sky than others.
What are the temperature and the distance it is from Earth?
200
These are darker because they are cooler than the rest of the photosphere.
What are sunspots?
300
A group of stars, dust, and gas held together by gravity.
What is a constellation?
300
This man's telescope improved earlier telescopes because he used a curved mirror that allowed people to see objects in sharper detail that were farther away.
Who is Isaac Newton?
300
Name the placement of the sun, moon, and Earth when there is a solar eclipse.
Sun, moon, Earth
300
This is the color of the hottest stars.
What is blue/white or blue?
400
This is the term used for the distance light travels in one year.
What is a light-year?
400
This type of telescope uses mirrors to collect light.
What are Keck Telescopes?
400
This tool was used to measure the angle between the horizon and a star or planet.
What is the astrolabe?
400
This is why people in the U.S. can see the constellation Canis Major only in the winter.
What is the Earth is moving around the Sun and different parts of the sky are seen.
500
This is a gigantic explosion that occurs near the end of the life of some stars.
What is a supernova?
500
This man found out that Jupiter had 4 moons orbiting it and Venus had phases like our moon as well as many other discoveries during his time.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
This is the tool used to measure the distance between the horizon and a point in the sky.