Astronomy and Telescopes Crossword Puzzle
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- 1. The astronomer who built a 40-foot telescope and discovered Uranus
- 3. The wavelength of light that infrared telescopes detect
- 4. The country where the FAST radio telescope is located
- 8. The scientist who improved the telescope for astronomical use in 1609
- 11. The space telescope launched in 1990, famous for its deep field images
- 13. The type of telescope that uses mirrors to gather and focus light
- 15. The celestial objects that the Kepler Space Telescope was designed to find
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- 2. phenomenon that causes color fringing in refracting telescopes
- 5. The planet whose moons were first observed by Galileo
- 6. The newest space telescope, launched in 2021 to observe the early universe
- 7. main advantage of putting telescopes in space
- 9. The type of astronomical object that pulsars were first thought to be
- 10. The type of telescope that uses lenses to gather and focus light
- 12. The inventor of the reflecting telescope
- 14. Telescope, The type of telescope that detects radio waves from space