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... distance from the charge according to an inverse-square law. electromagnetic radiation: Consists of massless packets of pure energy called photons produced by changes in the energy of charged particles, usually electrons. Photons travel through space at the speed of light. When the changes of energy ...
                        	... distance from the charge according to an inverse-square law. electromagnetic radiation: Consists of massless packets of pure energy called photons produced by changes in the energy of charged particles, usually electrons. Photons travel through space at the speed of light. When the changes of energy ...
									Chapter 17 Star Stuff
									
... carbon in a shell around the carbon core, and H fuses to He in a shell around the helium layer • This double-shell burning stage never reaches equilibrium—fusion rate periodically spikes upward in a series of thermal pulses • With each spike, convection dredges carbon up from core and transports it ...
                        	... carbon in a shell around the carbon core, and H fuses to He in a shell around the helium layer • This double-shell burning stage never reaches equilibrium—fusion rate periodically spikes upward in a series of thermal pulses • With each spike, convection dredges carbon up from core and transports it ...
									Chapter 17 Star Stuff How does a star`s mass affect nuclear fusion
									
... carbon in a shell around the carbon core, and H fuses to He in a shell around the helium layer • This double-shell burning stage never reaches equilibrium—fusion rate periodically spikes upward in a series of thermal pulses • With each spike, convection dredges carbon up from core and transports it ...
                        	... carbon in a shell around the carbon core, and H fuses to He in a shell around the helium layer • This double-shell burning stage never reaches equilibrium—fusion rate periodically spikes upward in a series of thermal pulses • With each spike, convection dredges carbon up from core and transports it ...
									ISP205L, Week 13 Computer Lab Activity The Distance to the Pleiades
									
... where m = the apparent magnitude, M = the absolute magnitude, and d = the distance in parsecs. At long last, equation (8) is the one that we need for this lab exercise. 4. Back to the Pleiades For the lab exercise we are going to give you an H-R diagram that plots the absolute magnitudes (M) of stan ...
                        	... where m = the apparent magnitude, M = the absolute magnitude, and d = the distance in parsecs. At long last, equation (8) is the one that we need for this lab exercise. 4. Back to the Pleiades For the lab exercise we are going to give you an H-R diagram that plots the absolute magnitudes (M) of stan ...
									Lecture 13 - Star Formation
									
... A star has 4 times the mass and 128 times the luminosity of the Sun. The star's lifetime will be ____ times that of Sun. A) 32 B) 4 C) 1 D) ¼ E) 1/32 ...
                        	... A star has 4 times the mass and 128 times the luminosity of the Sun. The star's lifetime will be ____ times that of Sun. A) 32 B) 4 C) 1 D) ¼ E) 1/32 ...
									The Galactic Halo The Galactic Disk Height and Thickness of MW
									
... Shapley’s Center of the Galaxy " To find the center of the Galaxy, Shapley measured the distance to each cluster using RR Lyrae stars and produced a three dimensional plot of the clusters’ positions. The center of the Galaxy was then identified by the average position of the clusters. " We now know ...
                        	... Shapley’s Center of the Galaxy " To find the center of the Galaxy, Shapley measured the distance to each cluster using RR Lyrae stars and produced a three dimensional plot of the clusters’ positions. The center of the Galaxy was then identified by the average position of the clusters. " We now know ...
									Birth of Elements
									
... the universe had just been created during the big bang and which is now thought to be an important contributor to the abundance of this nucleus. The interesting thing about the PP chain is that the different reactions occur at wildly different rates, depending on the temperature. The intrinsically s ...
                        	... the universe had just been created during the big bang and which is now thought to be an important contributor to the abundance of this nucleus. The interesting thing about the PP chain is that the different reactions occur at wildly different rates, depending on the temperature. The intrinsically s ...
									The Milky Way Model - University of Chicago
									
... Galileo is the first person credited with uncovering the most basic property of the Milky Way in the 17th century. Pointing his new invention - the telescope - in the direction of the Milky Way, he observed the seemingly uniform cloud dissolve into a great number of individual stars. He was able to ...
                        	... Galileo is the first person credited with uncovering the most basic property of the Milky Way in the 17th century. Pointing his new invention - the telescope - in the direction of the Milky Way, he observed the seemingly uniform cloud dissolve into a great number of individual stars. He was able to ...
									Neither Star nor Trigram - 5 Yellow Focus of Attention
									
... as much a ‘swirl out’ from 5 Yellow, as Star 2. It’s just that we can stretch the range 1-9 along the whole spectrum, then pick any point to momentarily park 5 Yellow and take this as our focus of attention. If seen across any spectrum of expansive and contractive forces, you’d so much as wish to fo ...
                        	... as much a ‘swirl out’ from 5 Yellow, as Star 2. It’s just that we can stretch the range 1-9 along the whole spectrum, then pick any point to momentarily park 5 Yellow and take this as our focus of attention. If seen across any spectrum of expansive and contractive forces, you’d so much as wish to fo ...
									Spectral Classification: The First Step in Quantitative Spectral Analysis
									
... “V” type is valid, so iteration is not necessary ...
                        	... “V” type is valid, so iteration is not necessary ...
									Document
									
... dust clouds in space. • Since space is full of dust, the farther away stars are, the redder they look. • Enough dust and eventually all visible light is scattered or absorbed. ...
                        	... dust clouds in space. • Since space is full of dust, the farther away stars are, the redder they look. • Enough dust and eventually all visible light is scattered or absorbed. ...
									north south east west - Maryland Science Center
									
... Applied Physics Lab to enjoy a view of Earth’s Moon and other related activities. Venus and friends – The word planet translates to wandering star because from our perspective these objects wander across the sky in relationship to the stars from night to night. A good example in the months of Septem ...
                        	... Applied Physics Lab to enjoy a view of Earth’s Moon and other related activities. Venus and friends – The word planet translates to wandering star because from our perspective these objects wander across the sky in relationship to the stars from night to night. A good example in the months of Septem ...
									Agenda - Relativity Group
									
... skins inside the star. However, since fusion of iron uses up energy instead of releasing energy, an iron core cannot support the weight of the outer layers. The collapse of this core — which occurs in a fraction of a second — results in a supernova that nearly obliterates the star (perhaps leaving a ...
                        	... skins inside the star. However, since fusion of iron uses up energy instead of releasing energy, an iron core cannot support the weight of the outer layers. The collapse of this core — which occurs in a fraction of a second — results in a supernova that nearly obliterates the star (perhaps leaving a ...
									The Universe - HMXEarthScience
									
... Which conclusion can be made by comparing the standard spectrum to the spectrum produced from this distant star? A) The star’s spectral lines have shifted toward the ultraviolet end of the spectrum and the star is moving toward Earth. B) The star’s spectral lines have shifted toward the ultraviolet ...
                        	... Which conclusion can be made by comparing the standard spectrum to the spectrum produced from this distant star? A) The star’s spectral lines have shifted toward the ultraviolet end of the spectrum and the star is moving toward Earth. B) The star’s spectral lines have shifted toward the ultraviolet ...
									– 1 – 1. Historical Notes for Ay 123 1.1.
									
... All other stellar masses are from binaries except for a few gravitational redshifts for white dwarfs. The problems of binaries are: we only see the orbit projected onto the sky, not the full 3D orbit, and we do not know the inclination angle, the angle that the orbital plane makes with the plane of ...
                        	... All other stellar masses are from binaries except for a few gravitational redshifts for white dwarfs. The problems of binaries are: we only see the orbit projected onto the sky, not the full 3D orbit, and we do not know the inclination angle, the angle that the orbital plane makes with the plane of ...
									SOFIA Science - Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy
									
... High-flying aircraft -above 40,000 ft -can observe most of the infrared universe ...
                        	... High-flying aircraft -above 40,000 ft -can observe most of the infrared universe ...
									Star Formation - University of Redlands
									
... dust clouds in space. • Since space is full of dust, the farther away stars are, the redder they look. • Enough dust and eventually all visible light is scattered or absorbed. ...
                        	... dust clouds in space. • Since space is full of dust, the farther away stars are, the redder they look. • Enough dust and eventually all visible light is scattered or absorbed. ...
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... • Stars of given type of spectrum and the same colors have the same absolute magnitude (99.9%) • Stars have different apparent magnitudes depending on their distance. • Stars behind dust clouds look redder than they are intrinsically, so… m-M=5 log d1 –5+ A(l) (i.e., the star looks fainter) ...
                        	... • Stars of given type of spectrum and the same colors have the same absolute magnitude (99.9%) • Stars have different apparent magnitudes depending on their distance. • Stars behind dust clouds look redder than they are intrinsically, so… m-M=5 log d1 –5+ A(l) (i.e., the star looks fainter) ...
									s%nffi - mrtavares
									
... The brightness of the rnain-sequence stars is also related to their irlass. The hottest blue stars are about 50 times more massive than the sun, while the coolest red stars are only 1/10 as massive. Therefore, on the H-R diagram, the main-sequence stars appear in decreasing order, from hotter, rnore ...
                        	... The brightness of the rnain-sequence stars is also related to their irlass. The hottest blue stars are about 50 times more massive than the sun, while the coolest red stars are only 1/10 as massive. Therefore, on the H-R diagram, the main-sequence stars appear in decreasing order, from hotter, rnore ...
									CAPSTONE-poster
									
... Our team decided to explore planetary nebulae because we wanted to know how were they formed, why they had so many colors, why they were called planetary nebulae, the significance of their names, their composition, how many possibly existed in the Milky Way galaxy, their approximate age, their first ...
                        	... Our team decided to explore planetary nebulae because we wanted to know how were they formed, why they had so many colors, why they were called planetary nebulae, the significance of their names, their composition, how many possibly existed in the Milky Way galaxy, their approximate age, their first ...
									Devil physics The baddest class on campus IB Physics
									
... E.3.9. State that the luminosity of a star may be estimated from its spectrum. E.3.10. Explain how stellar distance may be determined using apparent brightness and luminosity. E.3.11. State that the method of spectroscopic parallax is limited to measuring stellar ...
                        	... E.3.9. State that the luminosity of a star may be estimated from its spectrum. E.3.10. Explain how stellar distance may be determined using apparent brightness and luminosity. E.3.11. State that the method of spectroscopic parallax is limited to measuring stellar ...
									Small galaxies are growing smaller
									
... 16–20 Mpc away. Studies of Virgo by Allan Sandage, Bruno Binggeli and Gustav Tammann, and of Fornax by Sandage and Harry Ferguson, revealed many low surface brightness objects looking just like Local Group dwarf ellipticals (though some contain central nuclei), dwarf irregulars and even dwarf sphero ...
                        	... 16–20 Mpc away. Studies of Virgo by Allan Sandage, Bruno Binggeli and Gustav Tammann, and of Fornax by Sandage and Harry Ferguson, revealed many low surface brightness objects looking just like Local Group dwarf ellipticals (though some contain central nuclei), dwarf irregulars and even dwarf sphero ...
									AST1100 Lecture Notes
									
... HR-diagrams are often made from stellar clusters, a collection of stars which have been born from the same cloud of gas and which are still gravitationally bound to each other. The advantage with this is that all stars have very similar age. This makes it easier to predict the distribution of the st ...
                        	... HR-diagrams are often made from stellar clusters, a collection of stars which have been born from the same cloud of gas and which are still gravitationally bound to each other. The advantage with this is that all stars have very similar age. This makes it easier to predict the distribution of the st ...
									IMR_Star Theater
									
... visible and the nonvisible. In the course of 24 hours, all of the objects visible from a given location on Earth seem to rise in the east and set in the west. Your planetarium projects stars that are visible from the northern hemisphere. To see all the stars that are visible from the northern hemisp ...
                        	... visible and the nonvisible. In the course of 24 hours, all of the objects visible from a given location on Earth seem to rise in the east and set in the west. Your planetarium projects stars that are visible from the northern hemisphere. To see all the stars that are visible from the northern hemisp ...
Perseus (constellation)
 
                        Perseus, named after the Greek mythological hero Perseus, is a constellation in the northern sky. It was one of 48 listed by the 2nd-century astronomer Ptolemy and among the 88 modern constellations defined by the International Astronomical Union (IAU). It is located in the northern celestial hemisphere near several other constellations named after legends surrounding Perseus, including Andromeda to the west and Cassiopeia to the north. Perseus is also bordered by Aries and Taurus to the south, Auriga to the east, Camelopardalis to the north, and Triangulum to the west.The galactic plane of the Milky Way passes through Perseus but is mostly obscured by molecular clouds. The constellation's brightest star is the yellow-white supergiant Alpha Persei (also called Mirfak), which shines at magnitude 1.79. It and many of the surrounding stars are members of an open cluster known as the Alpha Persei Cluster. The best-known star, however, is Algol (Beta Persei), linked with ominous legends because of its variability, which is noticeable to the naked eye. Rather than being an intrinsically variable star, it is an eclipsing binary. Other notable star systems in Perseus include X Persei, a binary system containing a neutron star, and GK Persei, a nova that peaked at magnitude 0.2 in 1901. The Double Cluster, comprising two open clusters quite near each other in the sky, was known to the ancient Chinese. The constellation gives its name to the Perseus Cluster (Abell 426), a massive galaxy cluster located 250 million light-years from Earth. It hosts the radiant of the annual Perseids meteor shower—one of the most prominent meteor showers in the sky.
 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									 
									