Astronomers and Stars

Question 1

Ptolemy

Answer 1

The belief that the earth is the center of the solar system.

Question 2

Copernicus

Answer 2

An astronomer who thought of a model of the universe that set the sun in the center.

Question 3

Tycho Brahe

Answer 3

A very weird astronomer who thought the sun and the moon orbit the earth and the other planets didn’t.

Question 4

Johannes Kepler

Answer 4

Brahe assistant who thought that all planet revolve around the sun in elliptical orbits.

Question 5

Galileo

Answer 5

One of the first astronomers to use a telescope to observer objects in space and discovered craters and mountains on the earth’s moon, four of Jupiter’s four moons, sunspots on the sun, and phases on Venus.

Question 6

Issac Newton

Answer 6

A famous astronomer and scientist who name gravity.

Question 7

Ursa Major

Answer 7

constellation that is the most conspicuous of the northern constellations

Question 8

Ursa Minor

Answer 8

constellation in the Northern Sky. Like the Great Bear, the tail of the Little Bear may also be seen as the handle of a ladle, hence the North American name, Little Dipper

Question 9

Orion

Answer 9

constellation on the equator east of Taurus represented on charts by the figure of a hunter with belt and sword.

Question 10

Edwin Hubble

Answer 10

The american astronomer who proved that there are other galaxies out in space.

Question 11

Canis Major

Answer 11

constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere