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. (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 . 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. . 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. 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?. Ms. Cordaro . SMHS . Earth Science. Review/Warm up – Write this in your journal. (Do not fill in the blanks yet!!). A light year = How far _ _ _ _ _ travels in _ _ _ year.. The electromagnetic spectrum is made up of different size _ _ _ _ _ that produce _ _ _ _ _ _ in the form of radiation.. 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. 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:. megaparsecs. away be moving with respect to us, according to Hubble’s Law? Hint: H. 0. = 70 km/s/. Mpc. 1,400 km/s. 14,000 km/s. 140,000 km/s. 140 km/s. How fast would a galaxy 2,000 . megaparsecs. Contains more than 100 billion stars. Is one of the two largest among 40 galaxies in the Local Group. Our Solar System is located a little more than half way from the galactic center to the edge of the galactic disk.. Galaxies (part I) . T. Howard. The Galaxy – part I -- Overview. New distance unit: the . parsec. (pc).. Using Earth-orbit parallax, if a star has a . parallactic. angle of 1",. it is 1 pc away. . Chapter . 13, . Sections . 1. -5,7 (12 . pages). Homework for Next Time: . www.galaxyzoo.org. Question. Which of these is a picture of the Milky Way?. A. B. D. C. The Milky Way. Angular Size. Andromeda: MW’s Sister Galaxy. 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. .