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Roughly the amount of time required for the moon to orbit once around a the earth
What is month
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What telescopes that use lenses to gather and focus light
What is refracting telescopes
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How many constellations are there
What is 88
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what instrument is used to describe the location of a star or planet
What is an astrolabe
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radio telescopes detect radio waves. therefore radio telescopes have to be much _______ than optical telescopes.
What is larger or bigger
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Who's theory is that the sun is at the center of the universe and all planets including the earth revolves around the sun
What is copernicus's theory
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Where is the best place for a telescope
What is space
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the line where the sky and the Earth appear to meet
What is horizon
200
which 2 types of radiation are blocked by the atmosphere?
What is gamma rays and X-rays
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the angle between an object in the sky and the hoprizon
What is altitude
300
Showed that objects in the universe attract each other through gravitational force
What is Isaac newton
300
Made up of all of the wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
What is electromagnetic spectrum
300
why would a telescope be in space
What is to not have the atmosphere interfering
300
what is the study of the universe
What is astronomy
400
First person to use a telescope to observe objects in space
What is galileo
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What's detects radiation that cannot be seen by the human eyes
What is nonoptical telescopes
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why do stars appear to move across the night sky
What is the rotation of earth on its axis
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which telescope can focus all colors of light to the same focal point
What is reflecting telescope
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right ascension is a measure of how far east an object in the sky is from.....
What is vernal equinox
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Thought that the earth was at the center of the universe and that the other planets and sun revolved around the earth
What is Ptolemaic theory
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Sections of the sky that contain recognizable star patterns
What is constellations
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true or false.... a redshift is when a star is moving closer to the observer
What is false
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what type of radiation has the shortest wavelength
What is gamma rays
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unit of length equal to the distance that light travels in a one year
What is light year