Newton
The spacecraft that has traveled the farthest is ____________
Voyager I
_____________ was a monk who lived in the 1600's and believed in an infinite, or never ending, Universe. He was tortured and killed by the Roman Catholic Church for his beliefs.
Giordano Bruno
Cosmic address
2.________________
Solar System
The _________ is all there is, all there was, and all there ever will be.
Cosmos
If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and one day = 40 million years, our Universe would have formed at the following pace:
December 30Asteroid struck Earth
Humans can only see a small portion of the light that exists in the cosmos. We can use ____________ to reveal things we cannot see with our eyes alone, such as rouge planets.
Infrared
Cosmic Address
1____________
Earth
A belt of ___________ circles the sun between Mars and Jupiter
Rocky asteroids
___________ was the first astronomer to propose that the Earth was not the center of the Universe
Copernicus
Cosmic address
5. ______________
Virgo supercluster
Cosmic address
3. ________________
Milky Way Galaxy
If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and one day = 40 million years, our Universe would have formed at the following pace:
1. January 1st
Big Bang
The ____________ is a mass of comets that surround our solar system
Oort cloud
If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and one day = 40 million years, our Universe would have formed at the following pace:
March 15th
Milky Way formed
If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and one day = 40 million years, our Universe would have formed at the following pace:
November 9th
Life began evolving and procreating
The Universe is estimated to be about ___________________ years old.
13.8 billion (thousand million)
Humans made their first paintings on cave walls _______ years ago
30,000
If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and one day = 40 million years, our Universe would have formed at the following pace:
September 21st
Life begins on Earth
Cosmic address
4. ________________
Local group
____________ was the first person to look through a telescope.
Galileo
Humans first developed writing ___________ years ago
6,000
Cosmic address
6. _______________
Observable universe
Humans began studying ______________ to predict the seasons and migrations of animals
All recorded history makes up the last ________________ on December 31st of the cosmic calendar
14 seconds
If the history of all time were condensed into one calendar year (with one month = 1 billion years and one day = 40 million years, our Universe would have formed at the following pace:
August 31st
Our sun formed