Stars
Patterns of stars in the night sky
What are constellations?
The type of light that the human eye can detect
What is visible light?
The unit of distance between Earth and the sun
What is an astronomical unit?
The brightest object in the sky
What is the sun?
The name of our galaxy
What is the Milky Way?
Another name for the North Star
What is Polaris?
A tool used to look at stars and other objects in the galaxy that we cannot see with the human eye
What is a telescope?
The distance light travels in one year
What is a light-year?
The number of ways that astronomers measure the brightness of stars
What is 2?
A meteoroid that is streaking through the atmosphere
What is a meteor?
Stars in the sky appear to rotate in this direction
What is east to west?
This type of wavelength produces high energy
What is a shorter wavelength?
Neptune's distance from the Sun
What is 30 AU?
3 objects in the sky that Hipparchus left out on his apparent magnitude scale
What are the sun, the moon, and Venus?
The region where 4 dwarf planets are located
What is the Kuiper Belt?
The night sky is divided into this many regions
What is 88?
A tool used to spread light into different wavelengths
What is a spectroscope?
The apparent change in an object's position caused by looking at it from 2 different points
What is parallax?
The measure of how bright an object appears from Earth
What is apparent magnitude?
A scientist who studies stars & the galaxy
What is an astronomer?
This Greek astronomer identified dozens of constellations over 2,000 years ago
Who is Ptolemy?
The name for the range of different wavelengths
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
The average distance of 1 light-year
What is 10 trillion km?
The true brightness of an object
What is luminosity/absolute magnitude?
The larger constellation that the Big Dipper is a part of
What is Ursa Major?