astronomy

Question 1

Ptolemy

Answer 1

Roman mathematician,

Question 2

Copernicus

Answer 2

Renaissance polymath

Question 3

Brahe, Tycho

Answer 3

Danish astronomer

Question 4

Kepler, Johannes

Answer 4

German astronomer

Question 5

Galileo

Answer 5

Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath.

Question 6

Newton, Isaac

Answer 6

English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author

Question 7

Hubble, Edwin

Answer 7

American astronomer

Question 8

Ursa major

Answer 8

a constellation in the northern sky

Question 9

Ursa minor

Answer 9

a constellation located in the far northern sky.

Question 10

Orion

Answer 10

a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world.

Question 11

Canis major

Answer 11

a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere.

Question 12

Cassiopeia

Answer 12

constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia

Question 13

Red giant

Answer 13

a dying star in the final stages of stellar evolution.

Question 14

White dwarf

Answer 14

what stars like the Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel.

Question 15

Main-sequence star

Answer 15

any star that has a hot, dense core which fuses hydrogen into helium to produce energy

Question 16

Supernova

Answer 16

When a star goes boom

Question 17

Black hole

Answer 17

Something so dense that its gravity consumes everything and not even light can escape

Question 18

Parallax

Answer 18

the apparent displacement or the difference in apparent direction of an object as seen from two different points not on a straight line with the object.

Question 19

Light-year

Answer 19

distance light travels in a year

Question 20

Polaris

Answer 20

a star in the northern circumpolar constellation of Ursa Minor