Astronomy Quiz Review 1

This astronomer demonstrated that the universe is expanding and that galaxies are moving away from the Earth?

This ancient civilization made charts of star positions and recorded eclipses of the sun and moon as early as 1300 B.C.

 What advanced telescope has ushered astronomers into a new era of discovery with its infrared observatory capabilities?

• Newtonian Telescope

• Kepler Space Telescope

• Hubble Space Telescope

• James Webb Telescope

Who demonstrated that the universe is expanding through observations and mathematical calculations in 1929?

• Sean Rodriguez

• Edwin Hubble

• Johannes Kepler

• Tycho Brahe

Which astronomer proposed that planets orbited the sun in elliptical orbits and formulated three major laws of planetary motion?

• Johannes Kepler

• IssacNewton

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Galileo Galilei

Issac Newton invented the reflecting telescope and discovered the law of gravitation?

• True
• False

What type of telescope did Galileo Galilei develop and use to make important astronomical discoveries?

Who proposed that the sun was the center of the solar system and that the Earth and other planets orbit around the sun, challenging the previously accepted view?

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

British astronomer William Herschel discovered the planet ______in 1781?

• Satuen

• Jupiter

• Uranus

• Neptune

Astonomy is the science that deals with the study of stars and other celestial bodies in our Universe?

• True
• False