Early Astronomers Three

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1. Who identified the first white dwarf star? William Huggins Otto Heckmann Walter Sydney Adams Riccardo Giacconi

2. Who first proposed a large telescope in space? George Hale Edwin Hubble Lyman Spitzer, Jr. Galileo

3. Who discovered the first Trojan asteroid, 588 Achilles? Alfred Fowler E. Margaret Burbidge Bart J. Bok Maximilian Franz Joseph Cornelius Wolf

4. Whose early photographs of Mars, help to disprove that canals existed on Mars? Percival Lowell William Henry Pickering Alvin Clark Henrietta Swan Leavitt

5. Who is the father of U.S. rocketry? Albert Einstein Edwin Hubble Ernest Rutherford Robert Goddard

6. Who discovered cepheid variables? Annie Jump Cannon Ernest Cepheid Henrietta Swan Leavitt Albert Einstein

7. Who was the first person to show that some nebulae have pure emission spectra? Bart Bok William A. Fowler Jacobus C. Kapteyn William Huggins

8. Who found the first optical couterpart to a radio source, known as a Quasar? S. Chandrasekhar Harold D. Babcock Allen Sandage Ejnar Hertzsprung

9. What female Astronomer discovered eight comets? Annie Jump Cannon Caroline Herschel Vera Rubin Maria Mitchell

10. Who first proposed a Sun-centered Solar System? Ptomely Plato Aristotle Aristarchus