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Telescope Types
Astronomers
Reflecting, Refracting, or Both?
Exploring Space
Everything Else
100
This type of telescope shows the location of black holes.
What is an X-Ray telescope?
100
This person believed that the Earth was the center of the Universe.
Who is Aristotle?
100
Eyepiece lens.
What are both?
100
The first manned spacecraft was a part of this project.
What is the Mercury project?
100
This includes suns, stars, and galaxies.
What is the universe?
200
This type of telescope shows quasars, pulsars, and neutrons.
What is a radio telescope?
200
This person believed that the Earth revolved around the Sun (and was the 1st person to explain the universe).
Who is Aristarchus?
200
Objective lens.
What is a refracting telescope?
200
This project was a series of unmanned probes went to analyze Mars, Venus, and Mercury.
What is the Mariner project?
200
This is the name given to radiation that we can see.
What is visible light?
300
This type of telescope can help measure temperatures and gases.
What is an ultraviolet telescope?
300
This person believed that the Sun was the center of the solar system.
Who is Copernicus?
300
Concave mirror.
What is a reflecting telescope?
300
This was the first U.S. space station.
What is Skylab?
300
This is the radiation that has the shortest wavelength and highest frequency.
What are gamma rays?
400
This type of telescope can detect the birth of new stars.
What is an infrared telescope?
400
This person verified, with a telescope, that the Sun was the center of our solar system.
Who is Galileo?
400
Focal point.
What is both?
400
The goal of this project was to land on the moon.
What is the Apollo project?
400
This is the radiation with a slightly longer wavelength than the longest visible color, red.
What is infrared?
500
X-Ray, ultraviolet, infrared, and radio are all types of telescopes which study different parts of this spectrum.
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
500
The Bible's "astronomer", he referred to constellations by name.
Who is Job?
500
Plane mirror.
What is a reflecting telescope?
500
This project included the first U.S. satellite.
What is the Explorer project?
500
The amount of time it would take for us to discover it if the Sun exploded RIGHT NOW.
What is about 8 minutes?