PPT-Chapter 19: The Milky Way – A Classic Spiral Galaxy

Heres the mystery story well unfold Fuzzy blobs in the sky new solar systems or galaxies Observational tests Herschels map of the universe what we today know as just our Galaxy. 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. Galaxy. part 2. Unit: . Galaxies. Star systems like our Milky Way. Contain a few thousand to tens of billions of stars.. Large variety of shapes and sizes. Galaxy Diversity. The Hubble Deep Field:. Mini-University 2013. Our Milky Way . in Space and Time. Our Journey…. Where in the Galaxy Are We?. The Local Neighborhood. Top Milky Way Destinations!. The Dark Heart of the Galaxy. Formation of the Milky Way. Galaxies . And the Foundation of Modern Cosmology. How are the lives of galaxies connected with the history of the universe?. Hubble Deep Field. Our deepest images of the universe show a great variety of galaxies, some of them billions of light-years away. 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. The Milky Way: Our Home Galaxy. What are the different. components of the Milky Way?. How do we see those components?. What does a map of each component look like from our point of view?. Stars in the Milky Way. M51 – A typical spiral-disk galaxy. The M81 group of galaxies. M82. M81. Satellite galaxy. Satellite galaxy. M81 group showing hydrogen emission at radio wavelengths. Composite image of M 81. Blue shows X-Ray observations(high energy), pink infrared (dust). . 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:. 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 . Now what country…. W. hat continent…. W. hat planet…. W. hat galaxy?. After today’s lesson, you should be able to answer all of these questions and more!. How is our solar system positioned in the milky way galaxy and the universe?. in the Universe?. What is the solar system?. The solar system consists of:. The sun (which is the name of our star). Planets . Asteroids . Comets . Space rocks . Measurement in Astronomy. Scientists find it hard to work with the measurements we use on earth, like kilometers and miles, because the distances are so great it is hard for us to comprehend such enormous numbers. .