Please do not use other source beside the following one:
Source:
https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/6-thinking-ahead
1. This unit weve been reading
about the diversity and excitement in our Solar System. For this post, watch
this ten minute youtube video which gives an over view of our solar system.
There are several inaccuracies within the clip. Find them and report back to
your fellow students.
Can you find alternative video
clips that do a better job of explaining this topic?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmxi3HvK2Js
2.What are the three basic
components of a modern astronomical instrument? Describe each in one to two
sentences.
3.Name the two spectral windows through which
electromagnetic radiation easily reaches the surface of Earth and describe the
largest-aperture telescope currently in use for each window.
4. What is a charge-coupled device (CCD), and how is it used
in astronomy?
5. Why do astronomers place telescopes in Earths orbit?
What are the advantages for the different regions of the spectrum?
6. What kind of visible-light and infrared telescopes on the
ground are astronomers planning for the future? Why are they building them on
the ground and not in space?
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