Science Test paul may
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- Alan Shepherd
- first american in space
- meteor shower
- occurs when the earth passes cluster of meteors may be seen shooting through the sky
- Space shuttle
- was the first spacecraft designed to be reused
- Yuri Gagarin
- First man in space
- Electromagnetic Wave
- An electric field and a magnetic field oscillate at right angles
- Von Braughn
- Supervised the development of the saturn V rocket
- Ellipse
- Symmetrically shaped oval
- Taurus
- Known as the bull constellation
- Apparent Magnitude
- How bright a star looks from earth
- Aristotle
- popularized the geocentric view of the universe
- Full Moon
- When we see the full sunlit side of the moon we are viewing this
- Sirius
- the brightest star in the night sky
- Astrology
- Superstitious religion that places its faith in the constellations of the zodiac
- Celestial Equator
- Encircles the heavens midway between the celestial poles
- Galaxy
- Star system containing millions and billions of stars
- Pantheism
- Belief in which god is in everything
- Kepler
- developed the three laws of planetary motion
- Astronomy
- Study of god's creation beyond our atmosphere
- Polaris
- Also called north star/consisting in Ursa minor or The little dipper
- Milky Way
- Galaxy in which we live
- Asteroid Belt
- Located between Mars and Jupiter
- Binary Star
- A Double star
- Optical Doubles
- Pair of stars which to appear to form s couble star but do not is called this..
- space Probe
- Launched to explore unknown
- Venus
- Also called earth's twin
- Celestial Sphere
- Imaginary dome encircling the earth in which everything appears to be projected upon
- Galileo
- Improved a telescope
- Nebulae
- large clouds of gas and space dust
- Apogee
- High point of an orbit
- Escape velocity
- Speed necessary to make an escape from the earths gravity
- Photons
- Packets of energy in which light exists
- Copernicus
- Popularized the heliocentric view of the universe
- Equinox
- Means equal Night
- Universe
- The sum of God's physical creation
- Vega
- Brightest summer star
- Wavelength
- The length of one complete cycle or oscillation
- Four types of galaxies
- Irregular,elliptical,barred spiral,Spiral,Andromeda
- Planck
- formulated quantum theory
- Frequency
- Rate at which a wave oscillates
- Absolute Magnitude
- Actual brightness of a star
- Spectroscope
- instrument that splits light into a spectrum for analysis
- Neil Armstrong
- First man to step foot on another world
- Spectrograph
- separate light into a spectrum and records each amount of light is in the spectrum
- electromagnetic Spectrum
- complete range of frequencies of electromagnetic waves from the lowest to highest frequency
- Earth Year
- Time it takes for the earth to revolve around the sun
- Wave
- Rhythmic movement transferring energy form one place to another
- Perigee
- Low point of an orbit
- Sputnik 1
- first artificial object to be put into space
- Day
- Most basic unit of time
- solstice
- Is a point on a ecliptic midway between the two equinoxes
- Pulsars
- star that produces rapid bursts of radio waves
- Meridian
- Imaginary line that is used to measure the motion of celestial objects
- Gregorian
- Calendar which we use Today
- Isaac Newton
- Developed the laws of universal gravitation
- John Glenn
- First american to orbit the Earth
- Galaxy
- Spiral refers to a type of what
- Visible Spectrum
- What we call the colors of the rainbow
- Oscillation
- A back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same path
- Satellites
- Object that revolves around another object
- Sidereal
- Time based on the stars
- Ecliptic
- Apparent path of the sun
- Orion
- Brightest of all constellations/contains star Betelgeuse
- sun distance
- 93 million miles away
- Constellation
- Consists of stars resembling a shape or form