Download Badge Day - GBT

Search through the exhibits to find the answers to these questions
1. 3-D Orion: What is a constellation? Is a constellation real?
2. Life Cycle of a Star: What stages does a star go through? What stage is the Orion Nebula
in?
3. Wavemaker: How can you make a wave? How can you make the wavelength shorter?
4. Cosmic Clues 1.Analyze the spectrum for three stars. What are the 2 most prominent
differences between the spectra? Which star is hottest?
5. Cosmic Clues 2. How were infrared waves discovered? View yourself in the infrared.
What do the colors in the image tell you?
6. Cosmic Clues 3. If you used a spectroscope to look at a star and saw this pattern, what
gas would the star contain?
7. Shape Matters or Hot Spot: What happens to radio waves when they strike the GBT dish?
8. Pulsar: List 2 neat facts about pulsars. Listen to the pulsars. What is your favorite?
9. Observe an object with the GBT.
List the Object: _______________________
What is it? ___________________________
10. List four careers at the NRAO.
11. Play the galaxy matching game. Finish this sentence. The more distant the galaxy, the
______________________ its speed away from us.
12. How do astronomers make radio images?
13. Recipe for Radio Waves: How are cosmic radio waves produced?