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Cosmology
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1. Centered on the sun.
Titus-Bode Law
Interstellar Extinction
Heliocentric
quasar
2. The force of attraction between any two objects having mass
gravity
Instability strip
Chromosphere
highlands
3. The point where a superior planet is as far away from the sun as it can be (as seen from the Earth)
mare basalt
Shepherd satellite
opposition
tectonics of Venus
4. The lens in a telescope used to determine the magnification
dark energy
Refractor
Eyepiece Lens
MOONS: roundest shape
5. An energetic event taking place in the early universe
Objective Lens
condensation temperature
coma
Gamma-ray Burst
6. The law stating that hotter blackbodies look bluer than cooler blackbodies.
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7. Light scattered through the atmosphere that degrades astronomical images
Light Pollution
Brown dwarf
Absolute Magnitude
Main Sequence
8. A planet that is farther from the sun than the Earth is
Parallax
Bok Globule
Coronal Loop
Superior planets
9. A word meaning 'the same in all directions.'
isotropic
fastest rotation
regolith
Dark Nebula
10. Electromagnetic Radiation
Wein's Law
A family of radiant energy- includes light
Proton-proton chain
fastest rotation
11. Venus (retrograde)
Reflector
neutrino
slowest rotation
Chandrasekhar Limit
12. Massive compact halo objects (MACHO) - weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPY's)
quarks
Dark matter candidates
meteor shower
neutrino
13. A faint - remarkably uniform distribution of radiation in space
cosmic singularity
Cosmic Microwave Background
Photosphere
Emission Spectrum
14. Saturn
difference between maria and highlands of the moon.
MOONS: larger than mercury
Continuous Spectrum
least dense
15. A galaxy sending out a stream of material from its nucleus
Electromagnetic Radiation
supermassive black hole
Radio Galaxy
difference between maria and highlands of the moon.
16. A fusion process in which a carbon atom transmutes to oxygen and back - creating a helium atom in the process
Red Giant Branch Star
Light Pollution
CNO Cycle
Quasar
17. Radiation (possibly left over from the big bang) that fills the universe. Perfect black body spectrum and tells us a bit aout how galaxies are formed.
Electromagnetic Radiation
Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB)
quarks
Europa (Jupiters moon)
18. A subatomic particle with a negative charge. It creates light.
general star population
Horizontal Branch Star
Electron
Active Optics
19. A nearby galaxy with a quasar-like nucleus. closer but less bright than quasars-weaker
Seyfert galaxy
accretion disk
Enke gap
Thermal Equilibrium
20. A star fusing hydrogen to helium in it's core
Brown dwarf
2 Reasons Why there are Supermassive Black holes at the center of every Galaxy
Autumnal Equinox
Main Sequence Stars
21. An empirical scheme for predictin ghe orbital distances of planets
Titus-Bode Law
Celestial Sphere
In an expanding universe all galaxies see all other galaxies that are not gravitationally bound to them receding away. This is what we see in the Hubble Law. We infer that the Hubble law also holds true for all other galaxies.
Open - flat - and closed.
22. In an OPEN UNIVERSE - the curvature of space-time is ____ - Parallel beams will converge/diverge/remain parallel (circle one). The density parameter - Ω0 - is____.
Electromagnetic Radiation: X-Ray
Rich Cluster
Negative - Diverge - Less than 1
How is winding dilemma solved?
23. Sulfurous volcanoes - pools of liquid sulfur - surface resembles cheese pizza ACTIVE SURFACE
bulge
supermassive black hole
Heliocentric
Io (jupiters moon)
24. A continuous spectrum of light missing energy at a few wave lengths.
Kuiper belt
quarks
Absorption Spectrum
OB Associations
25. A planet that is closer to the sun than the earth
Supercluster
inferior planets
quasar
gravity
26. A huge sphere of tenuous gas surrounding the nucleus of a comet
coma
SETI
Gamma ray bursts
Spectroscopy
27. A term referring to Jupiter-like planets
deferent
Terrestrial Planets
open star clusters
jovian
28. The first rock-sized bodies that formed in the solar nebula from dust grains
chondrite
High Velocity Stars
Globular Cluster
A family of radiant energy- includes light
29. IO
Geocentric
In an expanding universe all galaxies see all other galaxies that are not gravitationally bound to them receding away. This is what we see in the Hubble Law. We infer that the Hubble law also holds true for all other galaxies.
MOONS: most geologically active
accretion
30. A high-pressure bulge in Neptune's southern hemisphere
Energy Level
great dark spots
Void
MOONS: thickest atmosphere
31. In a FLAT UNIVERSE(our universe) - the curvature of space-time is ________. Parallel beams will converge/diverge/remain parallel (circle one). The density parameter - Ω0 - is _____.
most eccentric orbit
Population 1 vs Population 2 stars
Flat - Remain Parallel - Exactly 1
Gamma ray bursts
32. When the Sun is farthest north of the celestial equator (about June 22)
synchrotron radiation
Summer Solstice
Cassini division
Maria
33. The seasonal shifting of a nearby star's position relative to more distant objects.
Parallax
Titus-Bode Law
Kuiper belt
Bok Globule
34. The era when the ratio of matter to energy greatly favored matter. (verses radiation dominated universe where it was opaque. Matter is now dominated by gravity not photons)
Pulsar
Cepheid variables
Self-Propogating Star Formation
matter dominated universe
35. A galaxy emitting large amounts of energy at long wavelengths.
Refractor
radio galaxy
Nowhere visible to us. If there are higher dimension then the center would be visible to someone who lives in one. If there are no higher dimensions then the center does not exist.
most moons
36. A bright area of higher temperature that often proceeds the formation of sunspots.
Cassini division
Drake equation
Plague
Photosphere
37. The first rock-sized bodies that formed in the solar nebula from dust grains
standard candle
Electromagnetic Radiation: Radio
chondrite
evidence of water on mars
38. Poitns of gravitational stability in the orbit of a planet
Electromagnetic Radiation: Infrared
Occam's razor
Observations of distant type Ia supernovae indicate that the expansion of the universe is speeding up with time - not slowing down! So there must be a force causing this.
Lagrangian Razor
39. Disk dust grains are made of all the elements that are not in gaseous form in space which blocks starlight and causes interstellar extinction
general star population
interstellar dust
Total Eclipse
radiant
40. The oldest part of the Milky Way
Bok Globule
Cosmic Microwave Background
Halo
Heliocentric
41. A repeated - periodic push or pull capable of summing into a larger push or pull
Perihelion
The Local Group
Io (jupiters moon)
resonance
42. A long-lived high-pressure bulge in Jupiter's southern hemisphere
differential rotation
We don't know. It might be but does not have to be.
tectonics of Venus
great red spot
43. A younger cluster of stars - found in the galaxy disk
H2 Regions
High and low pressure which stretch into bands due to the rapid differential rotation. deeper - darker colors are in the belts and zones are lighter
Open Cluster
Make up of the terrestrial planets
44. All possible types of energy that can be emitted and absorbed by atoms.
Corona
Spectral Lines
anorthosite
Electromagnetic Radiation
45. The apparent path of the Sun through the stars on the celestial sphere.
Biologicla life created the recycling of nitrogen - co2 - and the production of oxygen. Oxygen is heavier so the atmosphere held onto it easier than hydrogen and helium.
Active Optics
Ecliptic
Objective Lens
46. A measure of how an object resists accelerating when acted upon by a force. It is proportional the amount of matter in an object
Planetary Nebula
mass
Metals
semimajor axis
47. A method of finding a star's distance from its absolute magnitude and spectral type or color.
A family of radiant energy- includes light
Nowhere visible to us. If there are higher dimension then the center would be visible to someone who lives in one. If there are no higher dimensions then the center does not exist.
Kuiper belt
Spectroscopic Parallax
48. Why does the earth have few craters while the moon has many?
Earth resurfaces itself due to erosion and plate tectonics - while the moon has neither.
Photon
roche limit
Dwarf planets
49. Comglomerates of ice and rock that orbit the sun in highly elliptical paths
comet
mare basalt
Primary Mirror
White Dwarf
50. What Ole Roemer used to measure the speed of light in a vacuum
Eclipses of the Moons of Jupiter
Density Wave
meteorite
The Big Bang Theory resolves Olber's Paradox
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