Exam 23: Light, Telescopes, and the Sun

The type of spectrum produced by a common light bulb is a___________ .

Sir Isaac Newton built and used___________ telescopes.

The solar wind originates from ___________.

The outermost layer of the Sun is called the ___________.

The old fashioned incandescent light bulb produces yellowish colored light by heating tungsten to a very high temperature and the tungsten radiates light peaking in the yellowish- white range. If you wanted a more blue light that was brighter, what would you need to do with a simple filament light bulb?

Visible light emitted from the celestial bodies is only a small part of an array of energy called___________ radiation.

How do modern telescopes prevent problems of earlier telescopes that limited mirror size and stability during temperature changes?

Shorter wavelengths correspond to ___________energetic photons.

When several radio telescopes are connected together, the resulting network is called an___________ .

The first telescopes, and most amateur telescopes, rely on the human eye to observe objects. The first improvement on this observation method used___________ .

Hydrogen "burning" in stars is ___________.

The first scientist to use a telescope for astronomical purposes was___________ .

What does Einstein's formula e = mc² have to do with the Sun?

Streams of protons and electrons emitted from the Sun are known as the solar___________ .

Astronomers currently estimate sunspots to be about___________ degrees cooler than the rest of the surface.

To improve the resolution of radio telescopes, astronomers___________ .

The part of the Sun clearly visible during a solar eclipse is ___________.

The Spitzer space telescope is ___________.

Hale discovered that sunspots were associated with magnetic fields. What happens to these magnetic fields during a full sunspot cycle?

The wavelength of___________ is longer than the wavelength of yellow light.