What is the term for the amount of energy released from each square meter of an objects surface each second?
What do astronomers call the point in the sky that is directly overhead?
What is the constant called that is the average flux of the suns energy arriving at the earth?
The work of this harvard college observatory scientist made possible the first accurate determination of extragalactic distances by what is often called henriettas law?
Of the three types of meteorites, which is the most common, in terms of the number of samples, to fall to earth in recorded history?
What moon of neptune orbits in a retrograde direction?
What is the name for the celestial body of interstellar gas and dust where stars are sometimes born?
The 29 days it takes the moon to complete an orbit around the earth is called a?
A meteor that reaches the surface of the earth is more accurately called a?
Is the gravitational pull on an object equalized if the object is at the centre of a planet, i.e. Surrounded by the mass of the planet, which is creating the gravity?
Which of the is not another name for the pleiades?
The celestial coordinate analogous to latitude is called?
Name the part of the sun that we can see without any instruments?
When a superior planet is at quadrature in reference to the earth, what is its elongation in degrees?
Maria on the moon are?