Astronomers

Each of these astronomers made discoveries about stars EXCEPT:

• Jocelyn Bell

• Annie Jump Cannon

• Charles Messier

• Henrietta Leavitt Swan

Which of these astronomers discovered something that helped Edwin Hubble track distances of faraway objects?

• Jocelyn Bell

• Vera Cooper Rubin

• Henrietta Leavitt Swan

• Giovanni Cassini

Who was most correct about the shape of planetary orbits in our solar system?

• Copernicus (Circles)

• Brahe (Circles)

• Ptolemy (Epicycles)

• Kepler (Ellipses)

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To track consistent time, Galileo designed the pendulum clock, Huygens built the first working one, and Banneker built the first clock in America. Who else made discoveries about time?

• Eratosthenes

• Albert Einstein

• Tycho Brahe

• Giovanni Cassini

Each of these astronomers created a model of our solar system with the sun at the center EXCEPT:

• Johannes Kepler

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Ptolemy

How did Johannes Kepler improve the models of the universe that were being developed by Copernicus and Tycho Brahe?

• He changed the model from geocentric to heliocentric

• He changed the sun’s position slightly away from center

• He changed the distances of nearby vs far away stars

• He changed the order of planets in the solar system

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Each of these astronomers made scientific discoveries about galaxies EXCEPT:

• Giovanni Cassini

• Edwin Hubble

• Vera Cooper Rubin

• Charles Messier

The magnification of light through lenses was studied by each of these astronomers EXCEPT:

• Christiaan Huygens

• Galileo Galilei

• Eratosthenes

• All these astronomers studied light magnification

The Big Bang Theory states that the universe began expanding around 14 billion years ago. Which discovery helped support this scientific theory?

• Hubble’s Law

• Law(s) of Planetary Motion

• Law of Universal Gravitation

• Theory of General Relativity

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Isaac Newton hypothesized that light, based on its behavior, was made of small particles. Which astronomer showed that, in addition to behaving like a particle, light can also behave as a wave, bending around edges and corners?

• Christiaan Huygens

• Galileo Galilei

• Jocelyn Bell

• Henrietta Leavitt Swan

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