Ast1002 - Study guides, Class notes & Summaries

A scientific theory can be proved wrong if: cultural beliefs evolve to contradict it. scientists gather new data that disprove its predictions. it cannot explain all phenomena. it is based only on conjecture.scientists gather new data that disprove its predictions. A hypothesis may become a theory: after many repeated attempts to falsify it fail. if a majority of scientists agree on its propositions. after it has been logically proved. if it makes at least one verifiable predictio...

A long thin cloud that stretched from directly overhead to the western horizon would have an angular size of 90 degrees When a thin crescent of the Moon is visible just before sunrise, the Moon is in its waning phase f the Moon's orbit around Earth were a little larger, solar eclipses would be more likely to be annular According to "The Zodiac" Figure shown above, in June we would see the Sun in the direction of the constellation(s)... Gemini In the Figure below (Figure 0.20A - Pa...

A long thin cloud that stretched from directly overhead to the western horizon would have an angular size of90 degrees When a thin crescent of the Moon is visible just before sunrise, the Moon is in itswaning phase f the Moon's orbit around Earth were a little larger, solar eclipses would bemore likely to be annular According to "The Zodiac" Figure shown above, in June we would see the Sun in the direction of the constellation(s)...Gemini In the Figure below (Figure 0.20A - Parall...

The average distance from Earth to the Sun, 149,600,000 km, can be written in shorthand notation as1.496x10^8 The elevation angle between the northern horizon of a fixed observer and the north celestial pole isThe observers latitude 1 arc second is equal to1/3600 Where would you have to be to see the south celestial pole on your horizon?On the equator

These notes cover every chapter from the textbook The Cosmic Perspective for the class AST1002, Discovering the Universe. It includes topics like galaxies, physics, the history of astronomy, stars, planets, etc.