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Cosmology
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1. Half of the longest diameter across an ellipse
H-are Diagram
Brown dwarf
Titus-Bode Law
semimajor axis
2. When one side of a body always faces the planet it revolves around
synchronous rotation
Seyfert galaxy
direct motion
Big Crunch
3. 10 cm -> 1 mm
Electromagnetic Radiation: Microwave
Sc spiral galaxy
The Big Bang Theory
Electromagnetic Radiation: X-Ray
4. A quantity measuring the stability of the Earth's atmosphere
Focal Length
least dense
Seeing
MOONS: roundest shape
5. A fusion process in which a carbon atom transmutes to oxygen and back - creating a helium atom in the process
CNO Cycle
Sunspot cycle
Main Sequence
Big Crunch
6. Relativity predicts that nothing can travel faster than the speed of light in a vacuum - How can it move slower?
meteor shower
Electromagnetic Radiation: Ultraviolet Light
plate tectonics
If it is in a denser medium - such as glass - it will move slower
7. Disk dust grains are made of all the elements that are not in gaseous form in space which blocks starlight and causes interstellar extinction
great red spot
Thickest atmosphere
interstellar dust
Electromagnetic Radiation: Microwave
8. A location on an H-are Diagram where evolving stars pulsate
Instability strip
meteoriod
Proton-proton chain
Stephen-Boltzman Law
9. A term referring to Jupiter-like planets
Flat - Flat
jovian
Pulsar
tectonics of Mars
10. A logarithmically scaled value for the measured brightness of a star.
Cosmological Principle
Stephen-Boltzman Law
Apparent Magnitude
Hubble constant
11. Matter that reveals itself only through its gravitational attraction
Dark Matter
smallest diameter
Drake equation
rotation curve=winding dilemma?
12. The 'edge' of the universe. Light beyond this has not reached us yet.
partile horizon
Titus-Bode Law
Cassini division
Supercluster
13. A point in the sky where meteors appear to come from during a shower
Bok Globule
quarks
radiant
Spectral Lines
14. IO
MOONS: most geologically active
Particle Horizon
rotation curve = dark matter?
Dark Matter
15. Mercury
Wein's Law
Largest diameter
Halo
most eccentric orbit
16. Mercury
Ole Roemer
critical density
most eccentric orbit
Void
17. Titan
synchronous rotation
radio lobe
MOONS: thickest atmosphere
Gravitational Lens
18. The source of the force that is accelerating the expansion rate of the universe.
Planck time
Ammonia - methane - and water
dark energy
zone
19. Large nebula consisting of very cold gas and dust
tectonics of Mars
Annular Eclipse
A family of radiant energy- includes light
Molecular Clouds
20. A huge sphere of tenuous gas surrounding the nucleus of a comet
MOONS: larger than mercury
Autumnal Equinox
isotropic
coma
21. Radiation given off by electrons accelerating in a magnetic field
Enke gap
Planck time
Synchrotron Rotation
300000 KM/sec
22. A volume of space where few - if any - galaxies are located
Thickest atmosphere
Void
Blackbody Curve
Open - flat - and closed.
23. What are the three possible geometries of the universe?
Granules
Open - flat - and closed.
Big Crunch
Flat - Flat
24. Electromagnetic Radiation
A family of radiant energy- includes light
MOONS: most geologically active
Drake equation
Supernova (You can be my supernova girl)
25. The rotation period of the Earth measured relative to the stars.
Annular Eclipse
Sidereal Day
great dark spots
Zenith
26. Sa - Sb galaxies where two magnificent arms wind their way from nucleus out in a symmetrical manner.
Light: travels like a wave - detected like a particle
Vernal Equinox
Grand design spirals
Poor Cluster
27. Jupiter - Saturn - Uranus - Neptune
Jovian Planets
Precession
Spectral Lines
Yes - frozen at the poles- remains protected from the suns rays
28. A method of finding a star's distance from its absolute magnitude and spectral type or color.
Spectroscopic Parallax
most moons
Liquid metallic hydrogen
Electromagnetic Radiation: Microwave
29. Form honeycomb like patterns surrounding empty or nearly empty voids.
Stephen-Boltzman Law
Atomic Number
Flat - Flat
superclusters
30. The opaque universe that existed for 300000 years after the Big Bang. (photons outnumbered nuclei by 1 billion to one - so less light)
Chandrasekhar Limit
hottest surface
Seeing
radiation dominated universe
31. The layer of the sun just above the photosphere
Electromagnetic Radiation: X-Ray
Chromosphere
Interstellar Extinction
Atomic Number
32. How is the Hubble Law consistent with an expanding universe?
Blackbody
Steady State Theory (Leads to Olber's Paradox)
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.
mass
33. In Ptolemy's geocentric solar system - the large circle on which a planet's epicycle moved around the Earth.
Cosmic Microwave Background
deferent
Roundest orbit
Disk
34. Theory virtually demands that the geometry of the universe be ______. Results of measuring lumps in the cosmic background radiation indicate that the universe geometry is ________.
A family of radiant energy- includes light
Flat - Flat
asteroid
Absorption Spectrum
35. Old - pock marked - icy surface - interior is not differentiated - geologically dead - NOT ACTIVE SURFACE
Callisto (Jupiter)
MOONS: most geologically active
Instability strip
Dark Nebula
36. An important quality of telescopes that increases as the square of the primary mirror or objective lens
Thermonuclear Fusion
Light Gathering Power
Callisto (Jupiter)
Population 1 vs Population 2 stars
37. The light produced when particles from the sun collide with atmospheric molecules
supermassive black hole
Horizontal Branch Star
Turn off Point
aurora
38. A rock or iron specimen that has fallen from space
White Dwarf
dark energy
meteorite
highlands
39. Large nebula consisting of very cold gas and dust
Trojan asteroids
Molecular Clouds
Blackbody
semimajor axis
40. Matter that reveals itself only through its gravitational attraction.
dark matter
Thickest atmosphere
molecular clouds
Pulsar
41. When the Moon entirely blocks the Sun.
Dark matter candidates
Total Eclipse
greehouse effects
radiation dominated universe
42. A technique using computer-controlled mirrors to sharpen images distorted by the atmosphere
slowest rotation
Active Optics
E=mc2
standard candle
43. The law stating that hotter blackbodies look bluer than cooler blackbodies.
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44. What is the universe expanding into?
Dark matter is located at center of clusters - pulling the cluster members into faster orbits--dark matter gravity keeps objects in galxies bound.
Big Crunch
Open Cluster
It does not have to expand into anything. It might just be that the 3 dimensions of space are getting bigger. It may also be that our 3 spatial dimensions are expanding into higher dimensions if such things exist.
45. A term referring to the orbital character of stars near the Sun
tectonics of Earth
Differential Rotation
Dark matter candidates
The Local Group
46. A term referring to Earth-like planets
terrestrial planet
Refractor
Spectral Lines
conjunction
47. What are the three possible geometries of the universe?
deferent
Open - flat - and closed.
least dense
Parsec
48. Extends to a distance of 50000AU. Same objects as in the Kuiper belt-when they fall in toward the sun they become comets. Debris from comets hitting the Earths atmosphere cause meteor showers.
radio lobe
Metals
rotation curve = dark matter?
Oort Cloud
49. A small and dim but hot star.
AGN
Electromagnetic Radiation: X-Ray
radiant
White Dwarf
50. A galaxy emitting large amounts of energy at long wavelengths.
Refractor
zone
Penumbra
radio galaxy
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