PPT-The Magnetic Milky Way

Bryan Gaensler Centre of Excellence for Allsky Astrophysics wwwcaastroorg Brown 2010 The Centre for Allsky Astrophysics The CAASTRO Vision To be the international leader in widefield. Lec21: The Milky Way The Milky Way GalaxyLecture 21APOD Lec21: The Milky WayAtomic, molecular, and ionized gas Lec. 21: The Milky Way21 -2 Lec21: The Milky Way (Resolved by Galileo). Milky Way:. Galactic Structure and Dynamics. Milky Way has spiral structure. . Galactic Bulge surrounds the Center. . Powerful radio source Sagittarius A at Center. C. ontains Super-Massive Black Hole . The Milky Way Galaxy. When you look into the hazy band of light across the sky, you are actually looking at our galaxy from the inside. While an awesome sight, you can only truly begin to see it if you get away from city lights on a moonless night. . Recap. Canvas homework: due on Wednesday. Lab this week: Galaxy Morphology. Campus Observatory. Milky Way galaxy. Stars: . brightnesses. , masses, sizes, compositions, evolution. Interstellar matter: gas, dust. William Herschel’s map of the Milky Way based on star counts. In the early 1800’s William Herschel, the man who discovered the planet Uranus, tried to understand the shape of the Milky Way by counting stars. He counted how many stars there were in each of dozens of different directions and then plotted the count versus direction. . Section 1: . The Milky Way Galaxy. K. What I Know. W. What I Want to Find Out. L. What I Learned. Essential Questions. What is the size and shape of our galaxy?. What are the different kinds of variable stars?. Q: in order to study the spatial distribution of the thin disk (which dominates the Milky Way luminosity) surface photometry in the K band from space has been used. What is the advantage of the K band? What sort of stars give off most of their light at 2 microns. 23.1 Our Parent Galaxy. 23.2 Measuring the Milky Way. Early “Computers”. 23.3 Galactic Structure. 23.4 The Formation of the Milky Way. 23.5 Galactic Spiral Arms. Density Waves. 23.6 The Mass of the Milky Way Galaxy. . Loners. Interactions were once . believed to be unimportant . and rare.. Galaxies were thought to . be . isolated loners. , well . separated from one . another . a. nd scarcely interacting.. Au Contraire!. Spiral Structure. . The Astronomical Context. By the 1920’s, we knew that the once-mysterious spiral nebulae were flattened galaxies. . Our Milky . Way is . also. flattened. . Two obvious . questions arose:. Our Place Within It. . . The Visible Milky Way. The Milky Way as Seen From Texas. (from Canada, we can. ’. t see the Southern Cross). The Obvious Questions. How big is the Milky Way, and where are we located? At the . bye:. Angelina Battle. The legend of The Milky Way. This is what old people told me when I was a child. Long ago, when the world was new, there were not many stars in the sky. In those days people depended on corn for their food. They would grind it and keep it in bins behind their homes. Bread made from cornmeal, often kept them from starving during the long winter months. . The Greek philosopher Democritus (450–370 BC) proposed that the bright band on the night sky known as the Milky Way might consist of distant stars. Aristotle (384–322 BC), however, believed the Milky Way to be caused by "the ignition of the fiery exhalation of some stars which were large, numerous and close together" and that the "ignition takes place in the upper part of the atmosphere, in the region of the world which is continuous with the heavenly motions.“ The . Here’s the mystery story we’ll unfold…. Fuzzy blobs in the sky – new solar systems, or “galaxies”?. Observational tests. Herschel’s map of the “universe” . (what we today know as just our Galaxy).