Wk 8a Astronomers Through History

Who is known as the "Father of Modern Astronomy"?

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

Which astronomer proposed the heliocentric model of the solar system, where the Sun is at the center?

• Ptolemy

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Tycho Brahe

• Albert Einstein

Which astronomer is famous for his laws of planetary motion?

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Edwin Hubble

• Stephen Hawking

Who discovered the four largest moons of Jupiter, now known as the Galilean moons?

• Isaac Newton

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Which astronomer is known for the discovery of the law of universal gravitation?

• Albert Einstein

• Johannes Kepler

• Isaac Newton

• Tycho Brahe

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Who was the first astronomer to use a telescope to observe the heavens?

• Tycho Brahe

• Johannes Kepler

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

Who is credited with the discovery of the expanding universe?

• Albert Einstein

• Edwin Hubble

• Stephen Hawking

• Carl Sagan

Who was the first to propose that the Milky Way is just one of many galaxies in the universe?

• Edwin Hubble

• Carl Sagan

• Tycho Brahe

• Nicolaus Copernicus