Dimensional Analysis
60 seconds
What is a minute?
A model that Copernicus proposed, shows the Earth and the other planets revolving around the Sun, along with the Earth's axis turns.
What is the heliocentric model?
Large, celestial bodies, made up of gas, and it emits light.
What is a star?
AU equals_________ km
150,000,000 km
Unit of distance used to measure very large objects.
What is a light year?
1440 minutes in 24 hrs
How many minutes are in a day?
The Kemites.
Who did the Myceneans learn from?
A large collection of stars gas and dust that is held together by gravity.
What is a galaxy?
1 ly equals________km
9,500,000,000,000 km
46.5 billion light years
How far is the observable universe?
86,400 seconds in a 24 hours
How many seconds in a day?
From racism, Europeans didn't want "Black Africa" in their rise to greatness.
Why did the Europeans overlook Kemet?
large cloud of gas and dust in space. (Most stars from from this)
What is a nebula?
31 million ly
How far is Earth to the center of our galaxy?
Huge, spherical volumes in areas that have little matter.
What is a void?
How many hours are in a year
Nicholas Copernicus, Edwin Hubble, Aristotle, Galileo Galilei, and Sir Isaac Newton.
Who are 5 Fathers of Astronomy?
This nebula reflects the light from other stars
(often blue)
What is an reflection nebula?
536,112,000 ly
| how long does it take for Voyager 2o travel for 1 year?
Thousands of galaxies
What is a cluster?
10,080 seconds in 7 days
How many seconds are in a week?
This Father of astronomy didn't complete all of the Kemet system, but got the farthest.
Pythagoras
A gigantic explosion where a high mass star throws it's outer layers into space.
What is a supernova?
5.20 AU, 9.58 AU, 19.2 AU, 30.1 AU.
| What are the gas giant's distances for the sun?
Ten or more clusters of galaxies
What is a supercluster?