Ancient Astronomy

The ____________ refers to an imaginary sphere of heavenly objects that seems to center on the observer.

• Constellation

• Celestial Sphere

• North Pole

• South Pole

The apparent shifting of nearby objects with respect to distant ones as the position of the observer changes is called:

• Peristalsis

• Ex-Lax

• Periscope

• Parallax

Neil DeGrasse Tyson explains that in the 1960s, many people doubted that we could land on the moon because of technological limitations. What reasons does he give for why people in the modern era think we can’t establish colonies on the moon or elsewhere in space?

• No economic or political will

• It's been done before

• It's too far away

• We don't have the technology

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The first person to use a telescope to study the sky was __________.

• Ptolemy

• Kepler

• Galileo

• Aristotle

The two most famous believers of the geocentric model of the universe were:

• Orville and Wilbur Wright

• Kepler and Tycho Brahe

• Copernicus and Galileo

• Aristotle and Ptolemy

What did Galileo discover about the surface of the moon when he saw it through his telescope?

• It had craters and mountains

• It was smooth

• It was all water

• It was made of cheese

What organization did President Trump formally re-establish on Aug 29, 2019, which will oversee space activities within the Department of Defense?

• Space Force

• The Rebel Alliance

• U.S.Space Command

• Air Force Space Command

How long does it take the Sun to revolve around the Celestial Sphere?

• 365.25 seconds

• 365.25 minutes

• 365.25 days

• 365.25 weeks

Kepler's 1st Law of Planetary Motion states that each planet's path around the Sun is in the shape of a/an:

• Ellipse

• Ecliptic

• Circle

• Rhombus

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Ptolemy hypothesized that planets travel in circular orbits centered around the Earth. He called these circular orbits __________.

• Ellipses

• Epicenters

• Epicycles

• Epic Cycles