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Illustration CXCMWeiss The Galaxys bright stellar disk is embedded in a faint thicker which has a thickness about 3 times that of the thin disk may have been the original collision with a smalle. (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. . 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. 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?. Paul McMillan. Surveys For All, 1st February 2016 . Why do we care?. On the biggest scales, the ΛCDM model works. Why do we care?. On the scale of individual galaxies, agreement is less obvious.. Things are more complicated, we have to consider the baryons. 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. 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. Aug. 24 -- 10am class. Turn in HW 1 in the front of the room. If you didn’t get HW 1 on Monday, turn it in on Friday.. If you didn’t get the telescope lab on Monday, pick it up from Johanna.. Xiao Jiang , Chengkai Li , Ping Luo , Min Wang , Yong . Yu. (. 1. Shanghai Jiao Tong University; . 2. The University of Texas at Arlington; . 3. HP Labs China). 1. Motivation. Prominent streaks stated in news . 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. . 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. . 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).