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Duplicate of Astronomers
Duplicate of Astronomers
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About ancient astronomers #astronomy #astronomers
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1
Galileo's telescope improved from 3x magnification to __x magnification.
30
50
100
25
2
Who's book triggered a revolution and was considered a major event in the history of science?
Johannes Kepler
Tycho Brahe
Nicolaus Copernicus
Ptolemy
3
Tycho Brahe believed what about the sun?
It wasn't a star
It revolved around the moon
It revolved around the earth
That it was the center of the universe
4
Ptolemy created the Handy Tables. What did it predictions did it help with?
Sun
Moon and planets
All of the above
Eclipses
5
Johannes Kepler was best known for what?
Laws of Planetary Motion
Laws of Physics
Having a cool belt
Space
6
Who is known as the "father of modern observational astronomy"?
Galileo Galilei
Albert Einstein
Father
Nicolaus Copernicus
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Tycho Brahe confirmed ___ were not atmospheric phenomena.
Meteors
Planets
Stars
Comets
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Johannes Kepler helped which astronomer?
Ptolemy
Galileo Galilei
Tycho Brahe
Steven Hawking
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Ptolemy's model of the stars was what?
Lunarcentric
Solarcentric
Geocentric
Astrocentric
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Copernicus created a model of the universe that placed the sun where?
Next to Earth
After Jupiter
Center of the Universe
Revolving around Earth
