Structure of the Heavens
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Polish astronomer who proposed a heliocentric system of the universe | Nicklaus Copernicus
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| Scientist who discovered the law0 universal gravitation | Sir Isaac Newton
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| astronomer whose book Almagest mathematically described the geocentric view of the universe | Ptolemy
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| astronomer who discovered that the planets do not travel in circles | Johannes Kepler
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| astronomer whose discovery of the phases of Venus helped prove the heliocentric view | Galileo Galileo
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| the study of God's creation beyond our atmosphere | astronomy
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| the force of attraction that exists between any two objects | gravity
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| the general term for a space that does not contain any other matter | black hole
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| the point in a planet's orbit that is farthest from the sun | perihelion
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| the sun, planets, the planets' moons, and other smaller bodies that orbit the sun firm | the solar system
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