Vocabulary
The name we give to everything that exists
This galaxy has three main components: a bulge, disk, and a halo.
What is a Spiral Galaxy?
When you use more than one object to figure out the location of a third you are using this method of measurement
What is Triangulation?
The Big Bang and Creation are both called this because we cannot prove them
The amount of siblings Ms. Engelbrecht has
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The stars in the night sky change through the seasons because of the earth's movement around this imaginary line
What is the Earth's Axis
a galaxy shaped like a spheriod, or elongated sphere
What is an elliptical galaxy?
When a star is moving away from earth, it exhibits this
What is Redshift?
Theorized space material we cannot see
What is dark matter?
One of the Degrees Ms. Engelbrecht has obtained
What are a BEd or an MFA
The looped path that some planets seem to take through the sky when we track them throughout the year
What is Retrograde?
A galaxy that has no predictable or symmetrical structure
What is an irregular galaxy?
The displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight
What is the Parallax?
The two ways scientists justify the big bang theory
What are Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation and Red/Spectral Shift?
Ms. Engelbrecht's dog was named this
What is Pie?
Our definition of the universe is based on 3 questions
What is where we are, when we are, and who we are?
A spiral galaxy that has a 'bar' of material that runs through the nucleus that the arms emerge from.
What is a barred spiral galaxy?
The vertical measurement for locating stars
What is Altitude?
We know the age of the universe, true or false.
What is Art?
What is the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram?
The word 'Galaxy' originally came from the Greek word "Galaxia" which actually means this
What is "Milky Way"?
The degree measurement used (with a northern starting point) when measuring the location of a star.
What is Azimuth?
The force that theoretically propels objects into expansion
What is Dark Energy?
(Ms. Engelbrecht's age) x 2/7 + (the year she was born) - (her favourite number).
What is 1998?