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People explore space with what three things?
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Visible light, radio waves, rockets
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People explore space with visible light using what two things?
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Reflecting telescopes and refracting telescopes
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People explore space with radio waves using what?
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A radio telescope
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People explore space with rockets using what?
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Satellites, space shuttles, and space probes
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A refracting telescope is a type of what telescope?
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Opticle
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Radio waves and gamma rays are two types of what (waves)?
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Electromagnetic
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Sound waves are an example of what?
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Mechanicle waves
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What usues mirrors to focues light from the object being viewed?
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Reflecting telescope
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Because radio waves can pass freely though Eath;s atmosphere what are most useful under most weather conditions?
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Radio telescopes
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What is a motor that burns fuel without air?
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Rocet
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In what does light pass through a double convex lens and is bent to form an image on the focal plane?
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Refracting telescope
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To hear astronauts in space, the sound eaves are converted to what and then back to sound waves?
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Radio waves
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All electromagnetic waves travel at the same what?
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Speed
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What travels at 300,000 km/s in a vacumm?
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Light
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In a radio telescope radio waves strike a large curved what?
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Dish
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