
Spring Stargazing - Trimble County Schools
... • Follow a line from the top two stars of the B.D’s cup to Capella. This star will help form a pentagon shape. This is Auriga, the Charioteer. Capella is 42 ly away and is 130 times brighter than our sun. • Just beneath Capella is Epsilon Aurigau. It is one of the brightest known stars in the galaxy ...
... • Follow a line from the top two stars of the B.D’s cup to Capella. This star will help form a pentagon shape. This is Auriga, the Charioteer. Capella is 42 ly away and is 130 times brighter than our sun. • Just beneath Capella is Epsilon Aurigau. It is one of the brightest known stars in the galaxy ...
Stars and Their Characteristics
... • Constellation- groups of stars that appear to form patterns – 88 constellations can be seen from n. and s. hemispheres – So far away that only after thousands of years might the motions be observed – Big Dipper- asterism (small-star grouping) • Part of Ursa Major- Great Bear ...
... • Constellation- groups of stars that appear to form patterns – 88 constellations can be seen from n. and s. hemispheres – So far away that only after thousands of years might the motions be observed – Big Dipper- asterism (small-star grouping) • Part of Ursa Major- Great Bear ...
Constellation
... pressures. An Binary Star is a stellar system consisting of two stars orbiting about a common center of mass and often appearing as a single visual or telescopic object . In this constellation, and every single other constellation it has stars aligned in a shape. ...
... pressures. An Binary Star is a stellar system consisting of two stars orbiting about a common center of mass and often appearing as a single visual or telescopic object . In this constellation, and every single other constellation it has stars aligned in a shape. ...
OUSNMAY06 - The George Abell Observatory
... the borders of Canes Venatici and Ursa Major. NGC4395 (11.0) sg. Bright core with a low surface brightness circular halo. NGC4449 (10.5) ir. Appears almost rectangular making it an unusual object to view. NGC4485 (12.5) ir and NGC4490 (10.1) sg. Interacting pair of galaxies. NGC4631 (9.7) sg and NG4 ...
... the borders of Canes Venatici and Ursa Major. NGC4395 (11.0) sg. Bright core with a low surface brightness circular halo. NGC4449 (10.5) ir. Appears almost rectangular making it an unusual object to view. NGC4485 (12.5) ir and NGC4490 (10.1) sg. Interacting pair of galaxies. NGC4631 (9.7) sg and NG4 ...
Ch. 27 Stars & Galaxies
... • Supergiant Stars that run out of helium contract with much higher forces. ...
... • Supergiant Stars that run out of helium contract with much higher forces. ...
22 October: The Formation of Stars
... • When we see massive main sequence stars (spectral class O), we know they are young. • With fairly simple observations, we can find groups of O and B stars (OB associations) ...
... • When we see massive main sequence stars (spectral class O), we know they are young. • With fairly simple observations, we can find groups of O and B stars (OB associations) ...
Stars and their Properties
... Proper Motion is the measurement of a star’s physical motion Must be measured in parallel with Parallax o The Moving Cluster Method – Stars converge to a central point if you are moving backwards in space at very high speed – Used to 1,000 parsecs Sun is not in a star cluster Convergent Poin ...
... Proper Motion is the measurement of a star’s physical motion Must be measured in parallel with Parallax o The Moving Cluster Method – Stars converge to a central point if you are moving backwards in space at very high speed – Used to 1,000 parsecs Sun is not in a star cluster Convergent Poin ...
less than 1 million years
... 1. Today, scientists have _________ about how stars evolve, what makes them different from one another, and how they _____. 2. When __________ fuel is depleted , a star loses its _________ ___________ status. (2 words) 3. This (depletion of star’s hydrogen) can take less than 1 million years for the ...
... 1. Today, scientists have _________ about how stars evolve, what makes them different from one another, and how they _____. 2. When __________ fuel is depleted , a star loses its _________ ___________ status. (2 words) 3. This (depletion of star’s hydrogen) can take less than 1 million years for the ...
The Night Sky
... A large numerous collections of stars, gas giants and planets that make up a visual universe. They are held together by each planets and stars gravity. Other Galaxies: Sunflower galaxy- A galaxy in a spiral form discovered in 1779 Whirlpool galaxy- A whirlpool like galaxy. thought to be about 14 mil ...
... A large numerous collections of stars, gas giants and planets that make up a visual universe. They are held together by each planets and stars gravity. Other Galaxies: Sunflower galaxy- A galaxy in a spiral form discovered in 1779 Whirlpool galaxy- A whirlpool like galaxy. thought to be about 14 mil ...
AST 207 Test 2 Answers 20 October 2010
... star A. Prof. Adams says he discovered a new type of star that is fainter than white dwarfs. Has he discovered a new type of star? Explain. The clues are very much like Walter Adams’ discovery that Sirius B is a white dwarf. However, there is a crucial missing clue. Since Sirius A and B were known t ...
... star A. Prof. Adams says he discovered a new type of star that is fainter than white dwarfs. Has he discovered a new type of star? Explain. The clues are very much like Walter Adams’ discovery that Sirius B is a white dwarf. However, there is a crucial missing clue. Since Sirius A and B were known t ...
Barred Spiral Galaxy
... Our suns will expand out into a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf. ...
... Our suns will expand out into a red giant and then collapse into a white dwarf. ...
Organize Your Space PowerPoint.
... hundred to a few thousand stars. They may include many young bright blue stars. ...
... hundred to a few thousand stars. They may include many young bright blue stars. ...
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.