Telescope Parts
This part of the telescope is where you look through to see the image.
What is the eyepiece?
Reflector telescopes are different from refractor telescopes because they use this instead of lenses.
What is a mirror?
This bright object in the night sky is actually Earth’s closest neighbor.
What is the Moon?
This is a tool used to look at things far away in space, like planets and stars.
What is a telescope?
This term describes what a telescope does to make faraway objects look closer.
What is magnify?
This part holds the mirror or lens in place inside the telescope.
What is the optical tube?
When we look through a reflector telescope, the image we see is usually this way around.
What is upside down?
Our Sun is actually one of these, a huge ball of burning gas.
What is a star?
This term describes all of space, including stars, planets, galaxies, and more.
What is the universe?
The first telescopes were used not to look at stars but to help sailors look for land or other ships. True or False?
What is true?
This part of a telescope allows you to adjust it to point exactly where you want in the sky.
What is the mount?
This person invented the first reflector telescope in 1668
Who is Isaac Newton?
This red planet is our next-door neighbor in the solar system.
What is Mars?
This is what we call a group of stars that form a pattern in the sky, like the Big Dipper.
What is a constellation?
Some telescopes can see light that humans can’t see, like this type of light that lets us see heat.
What is infrared light?
In a reflector telescope, light bounces off this main piece before reaching the eyepiece.
What is the primary mirror?
The type of mount often used with reflector telescopes that allows smooth movement up, down, and side-to-side.
What is an alt-azimuth mount?
Four the planets in the Solar System have rings. They are the four giant gas planets. This planet has, by far the largest ring system.
What is Saturn?
These objects are giant balls of ice and dust that orbit the Sun and have tails when they get close to it.
What are coments?
Many telescopes are built on top of mountains because there is less of this in the way, making the sky clearer.
What is atmosphere?
This part of a telescope allows you to adjust it to point exactly where you want in the sky.
What is the secondary mirror?
The special name for how much light a telescope collects, which helps it see faint objects far away.
What is aperture?
It was not until the 1970s that rings were discovered around these three other gas planets besides Saturn. .
What are Jupitor, Uranus, and Neptune?
A large collection of billions of stars, like the Milky Way, is called this.
What is a galaxy?
This famous telescope, launched in 1990, orbits Earth and has captured some of the most detailed images of distant galaxies, stars, and planets.
What is the Hubble Telescope?