Stellar Explosions
... Supernova explosions are very energetic events. By studying supernovae and their remnants in multiwavelengths, astronomers gain a clearer picture of the death of massive stars and their effect on the gas and dust of the interstellar medium surrounding them. The supernova blasts from massive stars ca ...
... Supernova explosions are very energetic events. By studying supernovae and their remnants in multiwavelengths, astronomers gain a clearer picture of the death of massive stars and their effect on the gas and dust of the interstellar medium surrounding them. The supernova blasts from massive stars ca ...
LAB #3 - GEOCITIES.ws
... LAB. You will begin lab with a short quiz on these questions. What are Magnitudes? Because what we know about stars is due solely to our analysis of their light, it is very important to develop further the idea of stellar magnitude, or how bright a star is. When the Greeks scientist Hipparcos determ ...
... LAB. You will begin lab with a short quiz on these questions. What are Magnitudes? Because what we know about stars is due solely to our analysis of their light, it is very important to develop further the idea of stellar magnitude, or how bright a star is. When the Greeks scientist Hipparcos determ ...
Emission and Absorption Spectra
... • Unfortunately, there is another thing that can ALSO affect the color: if light from an object passes through dust clouds in the interstellar medium – Small dust particles can scatter/reflect some of the light out of its path into other directions – Most interstellar dust particles scatter blue lig ...
... • Unfortunately, there is another thing that can ALSO affect the color: if light from an object passes through dust clouds in the interstellar medium – Small dust particles can scatter/reflect some of the light out of its path into other directions – Most interstellar dust particles scatter blue lig ...
Stars
... in the sky Stars appear close together in the sky, however, they are actually light years from each other ...
... in the sky Stars appear close together in the sky, however, they are actually light years from each other ...
SGL 9 NGC Galaxy magnitude 9/10 observing challenge Up for
... Object 3 – Leo triplet (Taki page 50) No not the famous one. Look half way between delta and theta Leo and then a fraction left. This group NGC3605 / NGC 3607 and NGC 3608 are part of the Leo II group of galaxies. NGC 3605 is however in the background and NGC 3607/8 (both magnitude 9) are interactin ...
... Object 3 – Leo triplet (Taki page 50) No not the famous one. Look half way between delta and theta Leo and then a fraction left. This group NGC3605 / NGC 3607 and NGC 3608 are part of the Leo II group of galaxies. NGC 3605 is however in the background and NGC 3607/8 (both magnitude 9) are interactin ...
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... Nebular Hypothesis. Diffuse nebulae may be the remnants of supernova explosions, the end of life of very large stars. ...
... Nebular Hypothesis. Diffuse nebulae may be the remnants of supernova explosions, the end of life of very large stars. ...
the star
... • Alpha-Centauri A and B – a double star system with a period of about 80 years. Component A is a near twin of the sun (Type G2). Component B is a little fainter and orange. Alpha-Centauri A and B are 4.39 light years from the Earth. • Barnards star – highest proper motion of all stars. 5.9 light ...
... • Alpha-Centauri A and B – a double star system with a period of about 80 years. Component A is a near twin of the sun (Type G2). Component B is a little fainter and orange. Alpha-Centauri A and B are 4.39 light years from the Earth. • Barnards star – highest proper motion of all stars. 5.9 light ...
The Lives of Stars
... moving more rapidly than average will escape, or “evaporate,” from such a cluster • A stellar association is a group of newborn stars that are moving apart so rapidly that their gravitational attraction for one another cannot pull them into orbit about one another ...
... moving more rapidly than average will escape, or “evaporate,” from such a cluster • A stellar association is a group of newborn stars that are moving apart so rapidly that their gravitational attraction for one another cannot pull them into orbit about one another ...
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... IV. The Solar System as seen from above the north pole A. How many planets are there? _____. Predict which way they move as seen from far above the Earth’s north pole ___________________. Use Location, Solar System, Heliocentric longitude about 180 degrees, Heliocentric latitude about 90 degrees, di ...
... IV. The Solar System as seen from above the north pole A. How many planets are there? _____. Predict which way they move as seen from far above the Earth’s north pole ___________________. Use Location, Solar System, Heliocentric longitude about 180 degrees, Heliocentric latitude about 90 degrees, di ...
Earth Science Notes
... in the sky Stars appear close together in the sky, however, they are actually light years from each other ...
... in the sky Stars appear close together in the sky, however, they are actually light years from each other ...
Lecture 33: The Lives of Stars Astronomy 141
... Hydrogen into Helium in their cores The more massive a star is, the shorter its lifetime. Low-Mass stars are long-lived, spend some time as Red Giants, then leave behind a White Dwarf. Very high-mass stars have very short lives, spend a short time as red supergiants, then explode as a supernova. ...
... Hydrogen into Helium in their cores The more massive a star is, the shorter its lifetime. Low-Mass stars are long-lived, spend some time as Red Giants, then leave behind a White Dwarf. Very high-mass stars have very short lives, spend a short time as red supergiants, then explode as a supernova. ...
here
... takes 8 minutes. Alpha Centauri are really three stars all orbiting each other. One of these stars Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth next to our sun. There are many kinds of stars, big and small, close and far, bright and dim, some even change in brightness in a matter of hours (these ar ...
... takes 8 minutes. Alpha Centauri are really three stars all orbiting each other. One of these stars Proxima Centauri is the closest star to Earth next to our sun. There are many kinds of stars, big and small, close and far, bright and dim, some even change in brightness in a matter of hours (these ar ...
Chapter 02
... pole follows a circular pattern on the sky, once every 26,000 years. We are lucky to live at a time when a fairly bright star (Polaris, magnitude 2) is near the north celestial pole. It will be closest to Polaris ~ A.D. 2100. ...
... pole follows a circular pattern on the sky, once every 26,000 years. We are lucky to live at a time when a fairly bright star (Polaris, magnitude 2) is near the north celestial pole. It will be closest to Polaris ~ A.D. 2100. ...
Chapter 8: Stars
... relationship between a stars’ surface temperature and its absolute magnitude. • The modern HR Diagram is shown below. ...
... relationship between a stars’ surface temperature and its absolute magnitude. • The modern HR Diagram is shown below. ...
What do we mean by habitable zone?
... put a planet in that star’s habitable zone (which would be farther away because the star would be much more luminous than the Sun), life would be hard-pressed to evolve much even if it managed to originate. As a reminder, the earliest traces of life on Earth go back to something like 800 million ye ...
... put a planet in that star’s habitable zone (which would be farther away because the star would be much more luminous than the Sun), life would be hard-pressed to evolve much even if it managed to originate. As a reminder, the earliest traces of life on Earth go back to something like 800 million ye ...
Cygnus (constellation)
Cygnus /ˈsɪɡnəs/ is a northern constellation lying on the plane of the Milky Way, deriving its name from the Latinized Greek word for swan. The swan is one of the most recognizable constellations of the northern summer and autumn, it features a prominent asterism known as the Northern Cross (in contrast to the Southern Cross). Cygnus was among the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.Cygnus contains Deneb, one of the brightest stars in the night sky and one corner of the Summer Triangle, as well as some notable X-ray sources and the giant stellar association of Cygnus OB2. One of the stars of this association, NML Cygni, is one of the largest stars currently known. The constellation is also home to Cygnus X-1, a distant X-ray binary containing a supergiant and unseen massive companion that was the first object widely held to be a black hole. Many star systems in Cygnus have known planets as a result of the Kepler Mission observing one patch of the sky, the patch is the area around Cygnus. In addition, most of the eastern part of Cygnus is dominated by the Hercules–Corona Borealis Great Wall, a giant galaxy filament that is the largest known structure in the observable universe; covering most of the northern sky.