Star gazing

Where would you see Polaris if you were at the equator?

The heliocentric theory was first proposed by ______?

Galileo discovered details of a lunar surface?

About 300 B.C., Aristarchus suggested that the sun was at the center of the universe. Why?

Light travels about _____________.

The moon will always appear over the eastern horizon at the same time each night.

Newton invented the first reflecting telescope.

The scientist should be willing to change his or her theory if the evidence does not support it.

You may locate the north star by ________

The point in the sky which is directly overhead is called the ________?

The Italian scientist who first used a telescope to study astronomy was _____?

The light-gathering ability of a reflecting telescope depends on its _______?

Modern science has a scientific explanation for the origin of energy.

The universe is made up of billions of galaxies separated by huge distances.

It is reasonable to conclude that God created all matter and started the motions now observed in the universe because:

The paths that planets follow around the sun are called ________, and they are shaped like an ellipse.

It is now known that the celestrial objects which appear to move backwards among the stars are ___?

An astrolabe is a tool used to determine the location of a star.

Telescopes that use lenses for focusing light are called ____________ telescopes.

Brahe performed a systematic mapping of the sky.

One complete rotation of a planet is called a ____________.

Cameras are instruments that accumulates light from an object to show more detail.

Kepler found planets had elliptical orbits.

Altitude is the angel measured above the ________?