Astronomy Flashcards
Ptolemy
a Roman mathematician, astronomer, astrologer, geographer, and music theorist, who wrote about a dozen scientific treatises.
Copernicus
a Renaissance polymath, active as a mathematician, astronomer, and Catholic canon, who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center
Brahe, Tycho
a Danish astronomer, known for his comprehensive and unprecedentedly accurate astronomical observations
Kepler, Johannes
a German astronomer, mathematician, astrologer, natural philosopher and writer on music.
Galileo
an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath
Newton, Isaac
an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, alchemist, theologian, and author who was described in his time as a natural philosopher
Hubble, Edwin
an American astronomer
Ursa major
the great bear
Ursa minor
a constellation located in the far northern sky
Orion
a prominent constellation located on the celestial equator and visible throughout the world
Canis major
a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere
Cassiopeia
a constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty.
Red giant
a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass in a late phase of stellar evolution
White dwarf
what stars like the Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel
Main-sequence star
any star that has a hot, dense core which fuses hydrogen into helium to produce energy
