Cosmos Episode 1 Worksheet
Directions: Answer the questions as you watch episode 1 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey
1. What is the name of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “spaceship”
2. What is responsible for creating wind and keeping everything in the solar system in its clutches?
3. What lies between Mars and Jupiter?
4. How big is the centuries old hurricane on Jupiter?
5. What had to be invented before we could discover Saturn and Neptune?
6. What is the name of the spacecraft that has travelled the farthest away from Earth?
7. What is the Oort Cloud?
8. How far from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy do we live?
9. What is the “address” of Earth in the cosmos?
10. Why do we not know yet if we live in a “multiverse”?
11. Who wrote the banned book that Giordano Bruno read that gave him the idea that the Universe was infinite?
12. How long was Bruno jailed and tortured?
13. What happened to Bruno after he refused to change his mind about his beliefs of an infinite Universe?
14. Who was able to prove Bruno right 10 years after his death?
15. How many years does one month symbolize on the “cosmic calendar”?
16. What date on the “cosmic calendar” did the Milky Way Galaxy appear?
17. What date on the “cosmic calendar” was our Sun born?
18. What day and time did human ancestors first evolve on the “cosmic calendar”?
19. What does the last 14 seconds on the “cosmic calendar” represent?
20. How many seconds ago on the “cosmic calendar” did the two halves of the world find each other?
21. How old was Neil deGrasse Tyson when he met Carl Sagan in Ithaca, New York?
22. What is Carl Sagan most famous for?
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To answer the questions while watching episode 1 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, follow these steps:
1. Start watching episode 1 of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey.
2. Pay attention to the details and information provided during the episode.
3. Take notes or pause the episode whenever necessary to answer the questions.
4. Use the information provided in the episode to find the answers to the questions.
Now, let's answer the questions:
1. The name of Neil deGrasse Tyson's "spaceship" is the Ship of the Imagination.
2. Gravity is responsible for creating wind and keeping everything in the solar system in its clutches.
3. Between Mars and Jupiter lies the asteroid belt.
4. The centuries-old hurricane on Jupiter is enormous, but the exact size is not mentioned in the question. You may need to listen for specific measurements in the episode to answer this question.
5. The invention of the telescope was necessary before we could discover Saturn and Neptune.
6. The spacecraft that has traveled the farthest away from Earth is Voyager 1.
7. The Oort Cloud is a hypothetical cloud of comets that surrounds our solar system.
8. We live approximately 27,000 light-years from the center of the Milky Way Galaxy.
9. The "address" of Earth in the cosmos is Earth's location within the Milky Way Galaxy, specifically its position in the Orion Arm.
10. We do not know if we live in a "multiverse" yet because there is not enough scientific evidence to support or refute the existence of other universes.
11. The banned book that Giordano Bruno read, which gave him the idea that the Universe was infinite, was written by Lucretius.
12. Giordano Bruno was jailed and tortured for 8 years.
13. After Bruno refused to change his mind about his beliefs of an infinite Universe, he was burned at the stake as a heretic.
14. Galileo Galilei was able to prove Bruno right 10 years after his death.
15. In the "cosmic calendar," one month symbolizes approximately one billion years.
16. The Milky Way Galaxy appeared on the "cosmic calendar" on September 14th.
17. Our Sun was born on the "cosmic calendar" on September 9th.
18. Human ancestors first evolved on the "cosmic calendar" on December 31st at 10:30 PM.
19. The last 14 seconds on the "cosmic calendar" represent the time since the Big Bang until the present day.
20. The two halves of the world found each other approximately 0.2 seconds ago on the "cosmic calendar".
21. Neil deGrasse Tyson was 17 years old when he met Carl Sagan in Ithaca, New York.
22. Carl Sagan is most famous for his work as an astronomer, astrophysicist, and science communicator, particularly for his book "Cosmos: A Personal Voyage" and his ability to popularize and explain complex scientific concepts to the general public.