Vocabulary
Climate
The long term average of weather
While Galileo didn't invent this device, he was the first to use it to discover the four largest moons of Jupiter in 1610
A telescope
What's a light year?
The same as a regular year, just with less calories
Amino Acids
The building blocks of protein
This type of telescope, pioneered by Isaac Newton, uses a concave mirror instead of a lens to collect light
A reflecting telescope
What kind of stars wear sunglasses?
Movie Stars
Asteroid
A small and rocky object that orbits a star
To avoid atmospheric blurring and see clearer images, major observatories are often built on top of these, or in the case of the Hubble, placed into orbit.
Mountains
How does one astronaut tell another astronaut that they are sorry?
They Apollo-gise
Absorption
The process by which matter absorbs radiative energy
This 6.5-meter space telescope, launched in 2021 as the successor to Hubble, detects infrared light using 18 hexagonal mirrors
James Webb Space Telescope
What do you call a crazy spaceman?
An astro-nut
Crescent Phase
The phase of the Moon in which just a small portion of the visible face is illuminated by sunlight
This term refers to the ability of a telescope to separate closely spaced objects, which is often limited by the atmosphere, or "seeing," for ground-based scopes
Resolution
What is in the middle of the sky?
The letter K