Astronomers

Astronomer Johannes Kepler...

• Published Almagest

• Invented the first Radio Telescope

• Suggested elliptical orbits for the planets

• Was made head astronomer for the Church

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

This astronomer confirmed the heliocentric theory with his telescope.

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Copernicus

• Aristotle

This astronomer was convinced this image was accurate.

• Ptolemy

• Brahe

• Copernicus

• Galileo

Around 140 BC this person popularized the geocentric theory in his work Almagest.

• Aristarchus

• Eratosthenes

• Ptolemy

• Tycho Brahe

this person publishes De revolutionibus and introduces heliocentric theory (again).

• Aristarchus

• Ptolemy

• Tycho Brahe

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Who is most associated with this model of our solar system. Look carefully!

• Aristarchus

• Ptolemy

• Tycho Brahe

• Nicolas Copernicus

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NGSS.HS-ESS1-4

Observed Titan and rings of Saturn.

• Brahe

• Galileo

• Huygens

• Cassini

Developed the 3 laws of planetary motion.

• Kepler

• Newton

• Copernicus

• Galilleo

Discovered Uranus

• Giovanni Cassini

• Christiaan Huygens

• William Herschel

• Johann Gottfried Galle

Began a new era of astronomy when he concluded that the Sun was the center of the universe

• Aristotle

• Isaac Newton

• Claudius Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus