Ancient Astronomy
In 10,000 BC people believed the gods were this and were found in the sun, moon, and stars.
What is Celestial Beings
De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium, which supported that the sun is the center of the universe, was written by this person.
Who is Copernicus.
Space explorations gave humans this.
A taste of space outside of the confines of Earth.
This person theorized the Law of Motion.
Isaac Newton.
Sun observatories such as Goseck Circle were constructed how long ago?
What is 5,000 years ago.
Isaac Newton agreed that the earth did this.
Rotates around the Sun.
This Russian was the first human to walk in space.
Yuri Gagarin.
This person theorized the Theory of Relativity.
Albert Einstein
This Mesoamerican temple served as one massive calendar.
What is the temple at Chichen Itza.
In 1798, Laplace proposed the concept of this.
Black Holes.
This planet was demoted to a dwarf planet or planetoid.
Pluto.
The Mayans viewed astronomy as a connection to the gods.
True.
One of these helped turn astronomy into a theoretical science.
Who are Greeks such as Pythagoras, Thales of Miletus, Plato, and Aristotle.
Modern astronomers had more advanced theories about astronomy but not all of them were..
Accepted.
The Sun, Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune are part of this system.
The Solar System.
The temple of Kululkan was a calendar.
True.
Anaxagoras suggested this in 450 BCE.
The stars were similar to our sun and at a vast distance.
This person compiled a list of 103 deep-sky objects he identified as nebulae, star clusters, and galaxies.
Charles Messier.
These two people set foot on the moon first.
Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong.
Astronomy is the study of animals.
False.