Astronomers

Who catalouged the positions of 850 stars, and founded the stellar magnitude we still use today?

• Ptolemy

• Copernicus

• Brahe

• Kepler

Who represents planetary motion through interlocking circular orbits with Earth as the center?

• Hipparchus

• Hevelius

• Hypatia

• Newton

This person was thought to have edited book 3 of Ptolemy's Almagest, a manual on the motion of the stars and planets.

• Hypatia

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Copernicus

Showed the sun at the center of the universe

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Newton

• Brahe

Shattered the belief that the Universe beyond the moon was unchanging

• Hipparchus

• Copernicus

• Brahe

• Galileo

Constructed simple refracting telescope

• Brahe

• Hypatia

• Newton

• Galileo

Discovered planets have elliptical orbits

• Kepler

• Hypatia

• Brahe

• Hevelius

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Was the last astronomer to do major work without aid of telescope & catalogued 1,564 stars

• Kepler

• Hevelius

• Galileo

• Newton

Discovered 4 of Saturn's moons, lapetus, Rhea, Dione, and Tethys

• Newon

• Hevelius

• Cassini

• Kepler

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NGSS.MS-ESS1-3

Remembered for their work on gravity and optics

• Newton

• Galileo

• Cassini

• Hevelius

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NGSS.HS-PS2-1

NGSS.HS-PS2-4