Chapters 12 The Milky Way Galaxy Quiz - Astronomy 101: Chapter 12: The Milky Way Galaxy 1. Who discovered that, when viewed through a telescope, the

Astronomy 101: Chapter 12: The Milky Way Galaxy1. Who discovered that, when viewed through a telescope, the Milky Way is resolved intothousands of individual stars?a. Tycho Braheb.Galileo Galileic. Isaac Newtond. William Herschele. Jacobus C. Kapteyn

2.What main conclusion did the Herschels draw from their star counts?

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3. Which type of pulsating variable star is the most luminous?

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4. What feature of the Cepheid variables that were studied by Henrietta Leavitt in 1912 allowedher to conclude that the period-apparent brightness relation she observed was in fact a period-luminosity relation?

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