Discuss each question with your team. Be prepared to explain the reasoning behind your team's answers after the quiz.

  1. How can you make gasses glow?
    • Heating them up
    • Gasses glow all the time, some are just brighter than others
    • Gas never glows, it only absorbs light
    • Cooling them down
  2. A spectrum of a black body, a heated gas cloud, and a black body viewed through a gas cloud are examples of ________
    • a continuous, an emission line, and an absorption spectrum.
    • a continuous, an absorption, and an emission line spectrum.
    • an absorption, an emission line, and a continuous spectrum.
    • an absorption, a continuous, and an emission line spectrum.
    • an emission line, an absorption, and a continuous spectrum.
    • an emission line, a continuous, and an absorption spectrum.
  3. While observing the night sky you notice four stars: One red, one white, one blue, and one yellow. Which of these stars is hottest and which is coolest?
    • This cannot be determined by their color
    • The red star is hottest and the blue star is coolest
    • The white star is hottest and the yellow star is coolest
    • The white star is hottest and the red star is coolest
    • The blue star is hottest and the red star is coolest
  4. Which of the following properties of an object can potentially be determined by observing light emitted by it?
    • Chemical composition
    • Temperature and luminosity
    • Distance and relative motion
    • All of the above
    • None of the above

Observational

These labs involve applying some of the foundational techniques combined with actual observations using dedicated telescopes to learn more about astronomical phenomena.

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