PPT-Assembling the Milky Way

David Spergel What has changed Context Standard cosmological model No galaxy is an island John Dunne vs Immanuel Kant Tools Statistical galactic astronomy 100s of stars gt 100000s gt 1e9 GAIA LSST. 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 . Considering the . UN. derlying. Problems. UN-Faithful. Romans 10:17. “Faith comes . by hearing . and hearing . by the . word of God.”. Our faith must be based solely on the word of God.. To do something not authorized by God’s word is unfaithful. We are guilty of committing a sin.. 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:. 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). 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 . Vital Statistics. It’s our home!. Contains more than 200 billion stars, and a mass of ~10. 12. suns. It’s almost as old as the Universe itself!. 13.7 billion years old. Structure. The core and spiral arms are of different . Neoplatonist. philosopher . Olympiodorus. the Younger (c. 495–570 AD) criticized this view, arguing that if the Milky Way were sublunary it should appear different at different times and places on the Earth, and that it should have parallax, which it does not. In his view, the Milky Way was celestial. This idea would be influential later in the Islamic world.. AND TESTING . COMPUTERS. EXAMPLE: 3.1 ASSEMBLING AND TESTING COMPUTERS. The PC Tech company assembles and then tests two models of computers, . Basic. and . XP. . . For . the coming month, the company wants to decide how many of each model to assembly and then test. . 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). The astonishing variety of galaxies derived from a few structural types. Sec 1.3. Irregulars. = misfits in any class. Edwin Hubble . The Realm of the Nebulae . (1936. ). ‘. Tuning Fork’ classification scheme of galaxies.