Astronomy Flashcard Review 1

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This astronomer demonstrated that the universe is expanding and that galaxies are moving away from the Earth?

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Edwin Hubble

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This ancient civilization made charts of star positions and recorded eclipses of the sun and moon as early as 1300 B.C.

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Chinese

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 What advanced telescope has ushered astronomers into a new era of discovery with its infrared observatory capabilities?

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James Webb Telescope

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Who demonstrated that the universe is expanding through observations and mathematical calculations in 1929?

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Edwin Hubble

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Issac Newton invented the reflecting telescope and discovered the law of gravitation?

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True

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What type of telescope did Galileo Galilei develop and use to make important astronomical discoveries?

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Refracting telescope

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Who proposed that the sun was the center of the solar system and that the Earth and other planets orbit around the sun, challenging the previously accepted view?

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Nicolaus Copernicus

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Astonomy is the science that deals with the study of stars and other celestial bodies in our Universe?

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True

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British astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet ______ in 1781?

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Uranus

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Which astronomer proposed that planets orbited the sun in elliptical orbits and formulated three major laws of planetary motion?

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Johannes Kepler