Astronomers Flashcards
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Q
Ptolemy
Supernova
Black hole
Parallax
Light-year
Polaris (the star)
Copernicus
Brahe, Tycho
Kepler, Johannes
Galileo
Newton, Isaac
Hubble, Edwin
Ursa major
Ursa minor
Orion
Canis major
Cassiopeia
Red giant
White dwarf (not a caucasian little person)
Main-sequence star
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Claudius Ptolemy was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology
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Q
Supernova
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the death of a star then a birth of a next