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Tools of Modern Astronomy Slide Show 1. A light year is a unit of ______ and is the distance light travels in one year. Light travels at a rate of _________ and travels 1.5 x 1015 m/year. At that speed light travels almost 6 trillion miles in one _____! 2. It takes light from the Sun about ___ minutes to reach the Earth. It takes light from the Sun 6 hours to reach Pluto. 3. Proxima Centauri is our nearest star. It is ____________ away! 4. Let’s fly out to beyond our galaxy, the Milky Way, a distance of over _________ light years! 5. Our Galaxy is a collection of about ___________ stars, and there are about _____________ other galaxies! 6. All the information we receive beyond the Earth comes through the ______________________(light) radiating from other stars and galaxies (huge collections of stars). When we look at objects in the Universe we are seeing them in the ________! If a star is 100 light years from Earth then the light from that star took 100 years to get here and we are seeing the star as it was ________ ago! 7. There are telescopes that exploit all the different ________________ of the E-M spectrum! 8. There are 2 types of visible light telescopes: __________ & _____________. Refracting telescopes focus light through a objective _____________ lens onto an eyepiece. Reflecting telescopes focus light onto a __________ onto an eyepiece. 9. The Earth’s _______________ distorts EM radiation. UV, x-ray, & gamma ray telescopes are placed on _____________ for best “seeing”. The _____________ is the best visible light telescope because it is above the atmosphere. 10. Astronomers use _______________ to collect chemical composition and temperature data about stars. The light shining from the interior of a star is a _______________ spectrum. Elements in the outer atmosphere of a star absorb certain wavelengths (colors) and emit a _____________ spectrum in all directions. The resulting radiation of the star is called an ______________ spectrum. Astronomers can identify _____________ in a stars atmosphere by the dark absorption lines in the absorption spectrum that reaches Earth. 11. Most stars are ___% H, ____%He, & other elements. Spectral absorption lines in an absorption spectrum vary with _______________. Astronomers can tell the temperature of a ________ based on the appearance of these lines. They compare them to a database of known spectrum lines for each element at ____________ temperatures.