Astronomers

This scientist improved the telescope and proved the Sun-centered model of the solar system to be correct. He was placed under house arrest.

• Copernicus

• Ptolemy

• Aristotle

• Galileo

This is known as the Sun-centered model of the solar system...

• Geocentric model

• Heliocentric model

• Solarcentric model

• Egocentric model

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

This scientist made the first model of the sun centered universe. He didn't publish his work until he was on his deathbed for fear he would be punished by the Church.

• Galileo

• Aristotle

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

His model of the Earth-centered universe was the cornerstone of astronomy for 1,500 years

• Claudius Ptolemy
• Nicolaus Copernicus
• Charles Messier
• Galileo Galilei

Discovered 4 moons of Jupiter, sunspots, and much more.

• Galileo Galilei

• Aristotle

• William Herschel

• Claudius Ptolemy

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

He came up with universal gravitation.

• Kepler

• Hipparchus

• Bruno

• Newton

Tags

NGSS.HS-PS2-1

NGSS.HS-PS2-4

First to say that planets orbit in an elliptical path, not circular.

• Kepler

• Newton

• Galileo

• Copernicus

_________ studied black holes and stated that massive bodies create a time-space curvature around them.

• Simon Newcomb

• Stephen Hawking

• Albert Einstein

• Neil Degrasse Tyson

____________ published three laws of planetary motion using Tycho Brahe's data.

• Isaac Newton

• Edwin Hubble

• Galileo Galilei

• Johannes Kepler

_________ discovered the universe displayed red shift and is therefore expanding.

• Henrietta Swan Leavitt

• Tycho Brahe

• Edwin Hubble

• Annie Jump Cannon

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-2