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WorksheetsDiS Edwin Hubble
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
Who got Edwin Hubble interested in astronomy?
mother
father
grandfather
uncle
Hubble graduated from high school at 16 and went on to the
University of Missouri.
University of Chicago.
University of Colorado.
City University of New York.
What was Hubble's PhD thesis?
Photographic Investigations of Faint Nebulae.
Of Colours
Opticks
The Origin of Chemical Elements
Where was the observatory where Hubble made his discoveries with the Hooker telescope?
Mt. Washington
Mt. St. Helen's
Mt. Rainier
Mt. Wilson
Hubble discovered that Andromeda is
a nebula
a galaxy
a pulsar
supernova
The Hubble sequence
groups galaxies by photographic appearance
groups nebulae by photographic appearance
groups the galaxies by distance
groups the planets by distance
What is the observation that galaxies are moving away from Earth at speeds proportional to their distance?
Hubble's Law
Cepheid variable
Slipher's Doppler Shift
Hubble sequence
Who first detected the red shift and interpreted it as a Doppler Shift?
Albert Einstein
George Gamow
Georges Lemaitre
Vesto Slipher
What was the star that Henrietta Leavitt discovered which helped Hubble realize that Andromeda is a galaxy?
The Cepheid variable which has dim and bright cycles.
A supergiant that explodes in a supernova.
Sirius which is a main sequence star.
A neutron star which is one of the densest objects in the universe.
Who constructed and launched the Hubble telescope?
NASA
ESA
neither
both
