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Stars and Galaxies. What are we going to cover?. Our Place in the Universe The Electromagnetic Spectrum Classifying Stars Classifying Galaxies History of the Universe. First up…. Our Place in the Universe What is our Universe made of? How big are things? How far away? How do we know?. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Stars and Galaxies
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What are we going to cover?
Our Place in the UniverseThe Electromagnetic SpectrumClassifying StarsClassifying GalaxiesHistory of the Universe
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First up…
Our Place in the UniverseWhat is our Universe made of?How big are things? How far away?How do we know?
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Examining the Components
Stars Gas and dust (Nebulae)Star clustersGalaxies
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Different types of stars
Image from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star%20cluster/globular/2003/21/image/a/results/50/
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Types of Stars
Big (Super massive)Small (Dwarf)RedBlueYellowIn groups (Clusters)Alone (Rogue)
More later
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What is a “star cluster”?
stars formed together at same time
stars may be gravitationally bound together
two types: open (galactic) and globular
Image at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star%20cluster/globular/2007/18/image/a/format/web/results/50/
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Open Clusters
dozens to thousands of starsyoung stars! only a few
million years oldmay still be surrounded by
nebula from which they formedlocated in the spiral arms of a
galaxyexample: Pleiades
Image at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star%20cluster/open/2004/20/image/a/results/50/
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More open star clusters
Image from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star%20cluster/open/2006/17/image/a/results/50/
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Globular Clusters
millions to hundreds of millions of stars
old! 6 to 13 billion years mostly red giants and dwarfs stars are clumped closely together,
especially near the center of the cluster (densely)
surround our disk as a halo
Image at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/star%20cluster/globular/1999/26/image/a/results/50/
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What is a “nebula”?
A cloud in spaceMade of gas and dust
Can have stars inside
Most of the ones we see are inside our Milky Way Galaxy
Different types
Orion image at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a/results/50/
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Large, massive, bright nebulae
Emission Nebula• The hot gas is emitting light
Orion image at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/2006/01/image/a/results/50/
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Colder, darker nebulae
Dark dust blocking the hot gas behind it
NOAO/AURA/NSF Image from http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/dark/2001/12/image/c/results/50/
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Leftovers from an Explosion
Supernova remnant (smaller, less gas)
Image at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/nebula/supernova-remnant/2005/37/results/50/
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What is a “galaxy”?
A large group of stars outside of our own Milky WayMade of billions to trillions of stars
Also may have gas and dust Spiral, or elliptical, or irregular shapedImage at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/spiral/2007/41/results/50/
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Spiral galaxy--Andromeda
NOAO/AURA/NSF Images at http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0606.html and http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0685.html
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Elliptical Galaxies
Images at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/elliptical/2007/08/image/a/format/large_web/results/50/ and http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/elliptical/1995/07/results/50/
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Irregular Galaxies
NASA and NOAO/AURA/NSF Images at http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/archive/releases/galaxy/irregular/2005/09/results/50/ , http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0560.html , and http://www.noao.edu/image_gallery/html/im0993.html
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20© 2004 Astronomical Society of the Pacific www.astrosociety.org
How big is the Milky Way Galaxy?
100,000 light years
Image credits: NASA, STScI
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Our Galaxy: the Milky Way
has about 200 billion stars, and lots of gas and dust
is a barred-spiral (we think)about 100,000 light-years wideour Sun is halfway to the edge, revolving at
half a million miles per hour around the center of the Galaxy
takes our Solar System about 200 million years to revolve once around our galaxy
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The Milky Way
Image at http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/1945371.html
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Mapping the Milky Way
We can see stars star clusters nebulae Galaxies
Let’s try to Map our Galaxy
How do we know what our Galaxy looks like?
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Measuring Distances
What is a Light Year? A light year is the distance light travels in a year. Light moves at a
velocity of about 300,000 kilometers (km) each second; how far would it move in a year?
About 10 trillion km (or about 6 trillion miles).
Why do we use light years? Show me how far 5 centimeters is. Now show me 50 centimeters. Now tell me (without thinking about it, or calculating it in meters) how far
500 centemeters is. 2000? 20,000? We need numbers that make sense to us in relationship to objects; we
scale up and use meters and kilometers for large numbers.