Astronomy Part 1 - The Sun and Stars

The belief that the sun was the center of the solar system and that the earth rotated around it

• Heliocentrism

• Geocentricism

• Egocentrism

• Paleocentrism

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

The belief that the Earth is the center of the Universe and the planets and sun rotated around it

• Heliocentrism

• Geocentricism

• Egocentrism

• Paleocentrism

the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is closest to the sun.

• Ellipse

• Eclipse

• Perielion

• Aphelion

Tags

NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

the point in the orbit of a planet, asteroid, or comet at which it is furthest from the sun.

• Ellipse

• Eclipse

• Perielion

• Aphelion

Italian astronomer and mathematician who was the first to use a telescope to study the stars; Played a major role in the Scientific Revolution

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Rosalind Franklin

Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe; said planets orbited in perfect circles

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Rosalind Franklin

described that the orbits of the planets were not in perfect circles but were in ellipses

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Rosalind Franklin

the blocking of sunlight to the moon that occurs when Earth is directly between the sun and the moon

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

• Astronomical Eclipse

• Earth Eclipse

Tags

NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

Occurs when the Moon passes directly between the Sun and Earth and casts a shadow over part of Earth

• Lunar Eclipse

• Solar Eclipse

• Astronomical Eclipse

• Earth Eclipse

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-1

What are two possible outcomes that can occur to a Super Massive Star after Supernova?

• Black Hole

• Another Supernova

• Formation of a new planet

• Neutron Star