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GIZMOS STUDENT EXPLORATION: BIG BANG THEORY – HUBBLE’S LAW 2021 THE BEST EXAM Student Exploration: Big Bang Theory – Hubble’s Law Vocabulary: absolute brightness, absorption spectrum, apparent brightness, Big Bang theory, blueshift, Cepheid variable, Doppler shift, Hubble constant, Hubble’s law, luminosity, megaparsec, period, redshift, spectrograph Prior Knowledge Questions (Do these BEFORE using the Gizmo.) Standing by the side of a lonely highway at night, you see two moto...

How many constellations are there? - 88 constellations lookback time - The time elapsed between when we detect the light here on Earth and when it was originally emitted by the source, is known as the 'lookback time'. Center of Milky Way - The Galactic Center (or Galactic Centre) is the rotational center of the Milky Way galaxy; it is a supermassive black hole of 4.100 ± 0.034 million solar masses, which powers the compact radio source Sagittarius A. Period- Luminosity relation - In ...

Science Bowl Astronomy Exam Questions With Complete Solutions (Verified And Updated) A solar eclipse can only occur at a: A. full moon B. new moon C. ½ gibbous moon D. ¼ gibbous moon - answerAnswer: B Which of the following constellations cannot be seen in the summer sky of the northern hemisphere? A. Libra B. Orion C. Ursa Major D. Cygnus - answerAnswer: B What percent of stars in the sky that appear to be single stars are actually binary stars: A. about 90% B. about 50% C. about 20 %...

1) The rotation curve of the Milky Way suggests that the majority of the mass of the Milky Way lies farther out than the Sun's orbit. A) True B) False 1) 2) Which of the following best describes the evolutionary track followed on the H-R diagram for the most massive stars (before the star undergoes a Type II supernova)? A) horizontally right, then forms a clockwise loop B) horizontally right, diagonally to lower left, then horizontally right C) diagonally to lower right, then vertical,...

the speed of light is about ___________________. - correct answer 1 ly/year Imagine that you travel the speed of light. Starting from earth, how long would it take you to travel to the center of the milky way galaxy - correct answer about 28,000 years the galactic center lies in the direction of which constellation - correct answer sagittarius we have evidence that a black hole lays in the very center of the Milky Way galaxy. what is the mass of this black hole - correct answer 4 millio...

1) The Hertzsprung-Russell Diagram plots ________ against the spectral type or temperature. A) brightness or apparent magnitude B) mass C) distance D) size or density E) luminosity or absolute magnitude 1) 2) Which event marks the birth of a star? A) formation of the planetary nebula B) collapse of an interstellar cloud C) formation of a photosphere D) instability in an interstellar cloud E) fusion of hydrogen atoms into helium atoms 2) 3) Dr. Smith believes that the Hubble constan...

ASTRO 205 Multiple Exam Questions and Answers Rated A.

Absolute brightness the intrinsic brightness of a star that depends only on its luminosity. Apparent brightness how bright a star appears to an observer on Earth. Mpc Astronomers describe the apparent brightness of a star as the ratio between the brightness of the star to the brightness of the Sun when viewed from a distance of 1 _____________ . For example, a star with an apparent brightness of 10 is 10 times brighter than the sun would be if viewed from a distance of 1 _______...

Cygnus x-1 - correct answer A powerful x-ray source that is believed to be a black hole in our galaxy Virgo Cluster - correct answer Nearest large cluster of galaxies to our local group SBb - correct answer assignment given to a galaxy with moderately sized nuclear bulge & moderately wound arms starting from a bar through the central part of the galaxy That of an average city, about 10km - correct answer the diameter of a typical neutron star of 1 solar mass is predicted to be approxima...

ASTR 1010 Final Vanderbilt; Questions And Answers radioactive decay - answer -the process by which radioactive isotope breaks down into a stable isotope of same/another element; each half-life leaves half of existing population of radioactive isotope star cluster + special properties - answer -gravitationally bound stars formed from the same gas cloud; all about same dstnc from Earth, all about same age; open clusters have countable stars, globular clusters have too many to count (st...