 GALAXY is a collection of hundreds and  VISIBLE spectral features in the ____ part of the

billions of stars. electromagnetic spectrum

 DISTANCE the light year is a unit.  DISTORT high temperature, rotation, and
magnetic fields all tend to ____ spectral lines.
 AXIS rotation is the term used to describe the
motion of a body around.  REFRACTING a telescope that uses a lens to
focus light is called a ____ telescope.
 CELESTIAL SPHERE/ RING explain the daily
and yearly motions of the heavens, ancient  REFLECTING a telescope that uses a mirror to
astronomers imagined that the sun, moon, and focus light is called a ____ telescope
stars, and planets were attached to a rotating.
 REFRACTING all large modern telescopes are of
 MOON the solar day is measured relative to the ____ type.
the sun; the sidereal day is measured relative
to the_____.  DIAMETER the light gathering power of a
telescope is determined by the ____ of its mirror
 ECLIPTIC the apparent path of the sun across or lens.
the sky is known as the ____
 DIAMETER, AMOUNT the angular resolution of a
 WINTER SOLSTICE/ SOUTHERNMOST on telescope is limited by the ____ of the telescope
December 21, known as the ____, the sun is at and the ____ of the radiation being observed
its ____ point on the celestial sphere.
 ATMOSPHERE the angular resolution of ground
 CELESTIAL EQUATOR declination measures based optical telescopes is more seriously
the position of an object north or south of the limited by earth's ____ than by diffraction.
____
 LESS THAN 1optical telescope on earth can see
 LUNAR about half the earth at once. angular detail down to about ____ arc second

 SIZE as seen from earth, the sun and the moon  DATA BYTES CCDs produce images in ____ form
have roughly the same ____ that can be easily transmitted , stored and later
processed by computers.
 XXX to measure distances to nearby stars by
parallax, a baseline equal to earth's ____ is  400, 700 nm the visible spectrum ranges from
used. ____ to ____ in wavelength

 EARTH the radius of ____ was first measure by  RED light with a wavelength of 700 nm is
Eratothenes in 200BC perceived to be ____ in color

 CALENDAR Stonehenge was used as a ____ by  INFRARED, RADIO, VISIBLE earth's atmosphere
the people in the stone age. has low opacity for three forms of
electromagnetic radiation. they are ____ , ____ ,
 ANCIENT accurate records of comets and and ____ .
"guest" stars were kept over many centuries by
____ astrologers.  TEMPERATURE the peak of an object's emitted
radiation occurs at a frequency or wavelength
 MODERN the astronomical knowledge of determined by the object's ____
ancient Greece was kept alive and augmented
by ____ astronomers  0 the lowest possible temperature is ____ K .

 RETROGRADE the apparent " backwards"  273 water freezes at ____ K

( westward motion ) of the planets Mars,
Jupiter, or Saturn in the sky relative to the stars  6000 because the sun emits its peak amount of
 is known as ____ motion radiation at about 480 nm its temperature must
be about ____ K.
 SCIENTIFIC METHOD observation, theory, and
testing are the cornerstones of the ____  1200K two identical objects have temperatures
of 1000K and 1200K , respectively. it is observed
 COPERNICUS the heliocentric model was that one of the objects emits twice as much
reinvented by ____ radiation as the other. which one is it ?

 PLANETARY central to the heliocentric model  CLARIFY Active optics and adaptive optics are
is the assertion that the observed motions of both being used to improve the ____ of ground
the planets and the sun are the result of ____ based optical telescopes.
motion around he sun.
 ARRAY all radio telescopes are of the ____ design
 RESEARCH Kepler's laws were based on the
observational data obtained by  INFRA-METER an ____ is two or more telescopes
used in tandem to observe the same object, in
 ELLIPSE, CIRCLEKepler discovered that the order to improve angular resolution.
shape of an orbit is and ____ not a ____ as it
had previously been believed  X-RAY, GAMMA, UNTRAVIOLET ____ , ____ , and
____ astronomy can be done only from above
 XXX Kepler's third law relates to the ____ of the earth;s atmosphere
orbital period to the ____ of the semi major
axis.  INFRARED an object with a temperature of 300K
would be best observed with an ____ telescope.
 MOON, ATMOSPHERE, STARS Galileo
discovered ____ orbiting Jupiter, the ____ of  IMAGE gamma ray telescopes are unable to form
venus, and the sun's rotation from observation ____ of their fields of view
of ____
 WAVELENGTH the ____ of a wave is the distance
 AU the modern method of measuring the between any two adjacent wave crests
astronomical unit uses ____ measurements of
a planet or asteroid.  FREQUENCY the ____ of a wave is measured in
units of hertz (Hz)
 FORCE Newton's first law states that a moving
object will continue to move in a straight line  DIFFRACTION ____ is the ability of a wave to
with constant speed unless acted upon by a "bend around corners."
____
 POSITIONS, ELECTRIC when a charged particle
 SUM, DISTANCE Newton's law of gravity moves, information about this motion is
states that the gravitational force between two transmitted through space by means of its
objects depends on the ____ of their masses changing ____ and____ fields.
and inversely on the ____ of their separation.
 PIONEER 10 Jupiter was first visited by the U.S.
 MASSES Newton discovered that, in Kepler's spacecraft ____
third law, the orbital period depends on the
 VOYAGER 2 or NEW HORIZON The U.S.
semi major axis and on the sum of the ____ of
spacecraft ____ is the only probe to have visited
the two objects involved.
each of the giant outer planets.
 PRISM A ____ is a glass wedge that disperses
 GRAVITY spacecraft visiting one planet often use
light into a spectrum.
a ____ assist to visit another planet
 CONTINUOUS blackbody radiation is an
 200 pencil - beam surveys suggest that the
example of a ____ spectrum
largest structures in space are no larger than ____
 HIGH if an astronomical object is observed to Mpc in size.
emit x -rays , it is reasonable to assume that its
temperature is very ____  THOUGHOUT homogeneous means " the same
____ "
 SHORTER when an observer and / or object
emitting radiation move toward each other, the  DIRECTIONS throughouisotropic means " the
observer sees the radiation shifted to ____ same in all ____"
wavelengths
 COSMOLOGY together, the assumptions of
 ASTEROIDS the ____ are bodies that orbit the cosmic homogeneity and isotropy are known as
sun between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter the ____

 PLUTO, URANUS the two planets with the  DARK MATTER if the universe had an edge, this
highest eccentricity and orbital tilts are ____ would violate the assumption of ____
and ____
 ISOTROPIC PRINCIPLE if the universe had a
 INNER/ROCKY the inner planets, mercury, center, this would violate the assumption of ____
Venus, earth, and mars are known as the ____
 15 Billion years a hubble constant of 65
planets
km/s/Mpc gives a maximum age for the universe
 OUTER/GASEOUS/JOVIAL the outer planets of ____ billion years
jupiter, saturn, uranus and neptune are known
 GRAVITY ____ is slowing the expansion of the
a s the ____ planets
universe
 JUPITER the largest and most massive planet
 MASS the ____ of the universe determines
in the solar system is.
whether the universe will expand forever
 ICY, OUTER comets have compositions similar
 LARGE a ____ value for hubble's constant yields
to the ____ moons of the ____ planets
an age for the universe incompatible with the
 USA, MERCURY the mariner 10 spacecraft was oldest globular clusters
sent by ____ ( country ) to photograph the
 1 luminous matter makes up about ____ percent
planet ____
of the critical density
 RADAR the U.S. Magellan probe mapped the
 FASTER by observing distant galaxies,
entire surface of Venus using ____
astronomers have determined that the universe
 MARS the viking 1 and viking 2 missions sent was expanding ____ long ago than it is today.
orbiters and landers to the planet ____

 ROCKY, ICY asteroids and meteoroids have a

____ composition, in contrast with comets,
which have an ____ composition.

 INNER asteroids are similar in composition to

the ____ planets.