Ancient Astronomy
Telescopes
Our Sun
Astrophysics
Stellar Life Cycle
100
The ancient British constructed this monument known as...
What is Stonehenge?
100
This tool is used to view infrared wavelengths.
What is an infrared telescope?
100
This layer of our Sun provides the energy which heats Earth.
What is the core?
100
This astronomer wrote the laws of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
This diagram is used by astronomers when evaluating stellar characteristics. It is known as a:
What is a Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram (HR)
200
This ancient civilization utilized constellations to prepare them for when the Nile floods.
What is ancient Egypt?
200
Light-based telescopes use of series of these objects to either bend or reflect light.
Lenses.
200
Our Sun's core is primarily composed of this element.
What is hydrogen?
200
According to Kepler, every celestial body follows a gravitational orbit in this shape.
What is an ellipse?
200
This category of stars is stable, and fuses hydrogen at their core.
What are main sequence stars?
300
Rather than mythological explanations, this ancient civilization moved toward mathematical explanations for natural phenomena.
Who is the ancient Greeks?
300
Daily double!!
Ground-based telescopes are limited when *this* is present.
What is atmospheric distrortion?
300
Our Sun's mass is ____________ than all of the planets in our solar system combined.
*Hint* mass
What is greater?
300
An object at rest tends to stay at rest unless an external force acts upon it.
What is Newtons law of Inertia (first law).
300
This category of stars fuses heavy elements at a very fast rate.
What are high-mass stars?
400
This tool was used by ancient civilizations to divide the day into hours.
What is the sundial?
400
This tool picks up on electromagnetic waves from very far galaxies.
What is a radio telescope?
400
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What is the temperature of our Sun?
400
Gravity is dependent on these two variables.
What is mass and distance?
400
HR diagrams plot two stellar characteristics known as:
What is luminosity and temperature?
500
This ancient Egyptian constellation represented the god of the Afterlife.
Who is Osiris?
500
By capturing galaxies merging, probing the supermassive black holes that lurk in their depths, and helping us better understand the history of the expanding universe, this tool has advanced astronomy by leaps and bounds.
What is the Hubble space telescope?
500
This is the specific reaction that takes place in the core of Our Sun.
What is the fusion of hydrogen into helium?
500
These planets have the greatest force of gravity and the least force of gravity, respectively.
What is Jupiter and Mercury?
500
Make a bet! All or nothing.
A) This is the next stage in star evolution when the core has exhausted all of its hydrogen.
B) Low-mass stars evolve into this as their final stage
C) This class of stars evolves more rapidly than its counterpart.
A) What is red giant?
B) What is a type I supernova?
C) What are high-mass stars?