Physics and Astronomy - Famous Astronomers

Famous Astronomers

Neil Armstrong was an astronomer.

TRUE

FALSE

In 1930, Clyde Tombaugh discovered ___, a dwarf planet.

Neptune

Pluto

Mercury

Venus

Edwin Powell Hubble proved that ___ are galaxies.

asteroids

stars

meteors

spiral nebulae

___ discovered 4 moons of Saturn and the gaps in Saturn's ring.

Nicolaus Copernicus

Johannes Kepler

Edwin Powell Hubble

Giovanni Cassini

Tycho Brahe observed a supernova in 1572 which was named after him.

TRUE

FALSE

Galileo Galilei invented the telescope.

FALSE

TRUE

What planet did Sir William Herschel discover?

Uranus

Saturn

Jupiter

Venus

A comet was named after ___ when he correctly predicted its reappearance.

Galileo Galilei

Johannes Kepler

Nicolaus Copernicus

Edmond Halley

Who formulated the three laws of planetary motion?

Johannes Kepler

Galileo Galilei

Edwin Powell Hubble

Giovanni Cassini

Who was the Polish astronomer that advanced the heliocentric theory?

Clyde Tombaugh

Claudius Ptolemy

Galileo Galilei

Nicolaus Copernicus

Name the famous Italian astronomer who confirmed the phases of Venus.

Giovanni Cassini

Nicolaus Copernicus

Claudius Ptolemy

Galileo Galilei

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