Astronomy Flashcards
Ptolemy
He was a greek astronomer who wrote a book that combined all of the ancient knowledge of astronomy that he could find.
Copernicus
He was a polish astronomer that published a new theory that would eventually revolutionize astronomy.
Brahe Tycho
He was a danish astronomer who sued several large tools to make the most detailed astronomical observations that had been recorded so far.
Kepler Johannes
Johannes was Tycho’s assistant. After Tycho passed away he realized that all the planets revolved around the sun.
Galileo
Galileo di Vincenzo Bonaiuti de’ Galilei was an Italian astronomer, physicist and engineer, sometimes described as a polymath, from Pisa.
Newton, Isaac
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, physicist, astronomer, theologian, and author who is widely recognised as one of the greatest mathematicians, physicists and most influential scientists of all time.
Hubble, Edwin
Edwin Powell Hubble was an American astronomer. He played a crucial role in establishing the fields of extragalactic astronomy and observational cosmology.
Ursa major
Ursa Major is a constellation in the northern sky, whose associated mythology likely dates back into prehistory.
Usra minor
Ursa Minor, also known as the Little Bear, is a constellation in the Northern Sky.
Orion
Orion is a class of partially reusable crewed spacecraft to be used in NASA’s Artemis program.
Canis major
Canis Major is a constellation in the southern celestial hemisphere.
Cassiopeia
Cassiopeia is a constellation in the northern sky named after the vain queen Cassiopeia, mother of Andromeda, in Greek mythology, who boasted about her unrivaled beauty.
Red giant
A red giant is a luminous giant star of low or intermediate mass in a late phase of stellar evolution.
White dwarf (not a caucasian little person)
A white dwarf is what stars like the Sun become after they have exhausted their nuclear fuel.
Main-sequence star
In astronomy, the main sequence is a continuous and distinctive band of stars that appears on plots of stellar color versus brightness.
