Practice Questions for Final
... A. Active galactic nuclei can form only at large distances from the Milky Way. B. Supermassive black holes existed only when the universe was young, and no longer exist today. C. The jets seen in many active galactic nuclei must cause them to move far away from us. D. Active galactic nuclei tend to ...
... A. Active galactic nuclei can form only at large distances from the Milky Way. B. Supermassive black holes existed only when the universe was young, and no longer exist today. C. The jets seen in many active galactic nuclei must cause them to move far away from us. D. Active galactic nuclei tend to ...
ANTARES - National Optical Astronomy Observatory
... Astronomy continues to have a strong discovery-based element. Despite theoretical consideration of Einstein’s cosmological constant (Carroll et al., 1992), no one predicted the revolution that occurred in 1998 when observations of supernovae revealed that the Universe was not just expanding, but acc ...
... Astronomy continues to have a strong discovery-based element. Despite theoretical consideration of Einstein’s cosmological constant (Carroll et al., 1992), no one predicted the revolution that occurred in 1998 when observations of supernovae revealed that the Universe was not just expanding, but acc ...
Astronomy Powerpoint
... Death of Medium-Mass Stars • Stars with masses similar to the sun evolve in essentially the same way as low-mass stars. • During their collapse from red giants to white dwarfs, medium-mass stars are thought to cast off their bloated outer layer, creating an expanding round cloud of gas called plan ...
... Death of Medium-Mass Stars • Stars with masses similar to the sun evolve in essentially the same way as low-mass stars. • During their collapse from red giants to white dwarfs, medium-mass stars are thought to cast off their bloated outer layer, creating an expanding round cloud of gas called plan ...
PowerPoint
... 5. Uncovering Migration Mechanisms of Earth–like Planets by the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect 6. Direct Imaging Survey of Terrestrial Planets in Habitable Zone 7. Study of Exoplanet Distribution by Identifying the Host Stars of Planetary Gravitational Microlensing Events 8. Direct imaging and low resol ...
... 5. Uncovering Migration Mechanisms of Earth–like Planets by the Rossiter-McLaughlin Effect 6. Direct Imaging Survey of Terrestrial Planets in Habitable Zone 7. Study of Exoplanet Distribution by Identifying the Host Stars of Planetary Gravitational Microlensing Events 8. Direct imaging and low resol ...
ppt
... “star” in the galaxy and assume that it is the same as the brightest star in nearby galaxies. BUT, brightest object may not be a star at all! Overall galactic apparent brightness method – for distant galaxies, simply use overall brightness of galaxy to gauge distance. Very error prone! ...
... “star” in the galaxy and assume that it is the same as the brightest star in nearby galaxies. BUT, brightest object may not be a star at all! Overall galactic apparent brightness method – for distant galaxies, simply use overall brightness of galaxy to gauge distance. Very error prone! ...
IAUS 298: Setting the Scene for Gaia and LAMOST, The current and
... • The state of chemodynamical models of the MW • The quantification of selection effects • The parallel progress of theory and observations • The improved parameters for the disc • The eruption of Chinese astronomy (IAU, Blaauw) • The achievements of LAMOST & environment What would have made Stromgr ...
... • The state of chemodynamical models of the MW • The quantification of selection effects • The parallel progress of theory and observations • The improved parameters for the disc • The eruption of Chinese astronomy (IAU, Blaauw) • The achievements of LAMOST & environment What would have made Stromgr ...
1 pracovni list HR diagram I EN
... to know the star’s luminosity (or absolute magnitude) and effective temperature (or spectral type or colour index). From the catalogue it is possible to obtain the absolute magnitude (calculated in column M from the apparent magnitude – column Vmag and distance to star calculated from the parallax – ...
... to know the star’s luminosity (or absolute magnitude) and effective temperature (or spectral type or colour index). From the catalogue it is possible to obtain the absolute magnitude (calculated in column M from the apparent magnitude – column Vmag and distance to star calculated from the parallax – ...
astronomy webquest…… explore the universe
... The Milky Way Galaxy is approximately _______________ light years across. How much longer will our Sun last? _________________________ Lifetimes of stars range from ___________ to ____________ years. Our star orbits the centre of our galaxy about once every ________________ years. A teaspoon of mate ...
... The Milky Way Galaxy is approximately _______________ light years across. How much longer will our Sun last? _________________________ Lifetimes of stars range from ___________ to ____________ years. Our star orbits the centre of our galaxy about once every ________________ years. A teaspoon of mate ...
Orion - Starry Starry Night!
... Visible : Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Dec Winter - Spring Canis Major contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, known as the "dog star". It is bright because of its proximity to our Solar System. In contrast, the other bright stars of the constellation are stars of great distance and high lumino ...
... Visible : Jan, Feb, Mar, Apr, Dec Winter - Spring Canis Major contains Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky, known as the "dog star". It is bright because of its proximity to our Solar System. In contrast, the other bright stars of the constellation are stars of great distance and high lumino ...
Test - Scioly.org
... a. Because close encounters between stars are common in globular clusters. b. Because all the stars formed in a globular cluster at the same time. c. Because globular clusters contain little to no dark matter. d. Because globular clusters have low abundances of carbon. ...
... a. Because close encounters between stars are common in globular clusters. b. Because all the stars formed in a globular cluster at the same time. c. Because globular clusters contain little to no dark matter. d. Because globular clusters have low abundances of carbon. ...
ph507-16-1exo2
... inner edge begins around 25 AU away, farther than the average orbital distance of Uranus in the Solar System. Theoretically, this disk should have lasted for only around 10 million years. That it has persisted for the 20 to 200 million year lifetime of Beta Pictoris may be due to the presence of lar ...
... inner edge begins around 25 AU away, farther than the average orbital distance of Uranus in the Solar System. Theoretically, this disk should have lasted for only around 10 million years. That it has persisted for the 20 to 200 million year lifetime of Beta Pictoris may be due to the presence of lar ...
Activity in other Stars I
... Die CaII H and K lines I Strong lines like CaII, MgII amd LyAlpha show an emission core. Qualitatively we can explain it in the following way: Let us assume we observe the Sun with a turn-able filter. We start at the the wings and than turn the filter subsequently towards the line centre. That me ...
... Die CaII H and K lines I Strong lines like CaII, MgII amd LyAlpha show an emission core. Qualitatively we can explain it in the following way: Let us assume we observe the Sun with a turn-able filter. We start at the the wings and than turn the filter subsequently towards the line centre. That me ...
Chapter 21: Energy and Matter in the Universe
... accelerated rate, and helium burning typically occupies only 10% of a star’s total life. Though the core has collapsed, the resulting increased rate of radiation pressure blows most of the star’s mantle outward. Mantles typically contain most of the mass of a star. Such stars become red giants, each ...
... accelerated rate, and helium burning typically occupies only 10% of a star’s total life. Though the core has collapsed, the resulting increased rate of radiation pressure blows most of the star’s mantle outward. Mantles typically contain most of the mass of a star. Such stars become red giants, each ...
Why does Sirius twinkle?
... extreme, more down-to-Earth example of this would and is roughly 8.5 light years away from Earth, be heat rising off of a road or a desert causing making it one of the closest stars to us. It has a objects behind it to distort, shimmer and change tiny companion star making it a binary system compose ...
... extreme, more down-to-Earth example of this would and is roughly 8.5 light years away from Earth, be heat rising off of a road or a desert causing making it one of the closest stars to us. It has a objects behind it to distort, shimmer and change tiny companion star making it a binary system compose ...
The Night Sky May 2016 - Bridgend Astronomical Society
... lie within its boundaries. Spica is, in fact, an exceedingly close double star with the two B type stars orbiting each other every 4 days. Their total luminosity is 2000 times that of our Sun. In the upper right hand quadrant of Virgo lies the centre of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. There are 13 ga ...
... lie within its boundaries. Spica is, in fact, an exceedingly close double star with the two B type stars orbiting each other every 4 days. Their total luminosity is 2000 times that of our Sun. In the upper right hand quadrant of Virgo lies the centre of the Virgo Cluster of galaxies. There are 13 ga ...
Hypervelocity Globular: A beacon of merging clusters Oleg Gnedin with Alexey Vikhlinin
... which is merging head-on with the Virgo cluster: significant probability of reaching the observed velocity • Extreme negative velocity outliers are signposts of cluster mergers: could be detected to a distance of > 300 Mpc ...
... which is merging head-on with the Virgo cluster: significant probability of reaching the observed velocity • Extreme negative velocity outliers are signposts of cluster mergers: could be detected to a distance of > 300 Mpc ...
Astronomy 1143 Quiz 2 Review
... 2. What is Hubble’s Law? • v = H0 d, where v is the velocity of a galaxy (which we can determine from the redshift), d is the distance to that galaxy, and H0 is Hubble’s constant. 3. Using Hubble’s law, how can we determine the age of the universe? • Since the universe is expanding and must have had ...
... 2. What is Hubble’s Law? • v = H0 d, where v is the velocity of a galaxy (which we can determine from the redshift), d is the distance to that galaxy, and H0 is Hubble’s constant. 3. Using Hubble’s law, how can we determine the age of the universe? • Since the universe is expanding and must have had ...
The Universe
... sub-dwarf) stars. Can you explain why these stars are grouped along this diagonal line? Hints: What influence does the size of a star have on its temperature? And what is the relationship between temperature and colour? To find an answer to the last question you might want to look up ...
... sub-dwarf) stars. Can you explain why these stars are grouped along this diagonal line? Hints: What influence does the size of a star have on its temperature? And what is the relationship between temperature and colour? To find an answer to the last question you might want to look up ...
4-6 Script
... become the standard for Astronomers to use all over the world. In Science, constellations can be used as maps. Constellations divide the sky up into familiar boundaries, just as the United States is divided into familiar boundaries called states. Every major star in the sky is part of a constellatio ...
... become the standard for Astronomers to use all over the world. In Science, constellations can be used as maps. Constellations divide the sky up into familiar boundaries, just as the United States is divided into familiar boundaries called states. Every major star in the sky is part of a constellatio ...
THE 3-D UNIVERSE CONCEPTS
... brightness, their distance can be estimated even when they are in galaxies or star clusters that are extremely far away. Another example of standard candles are Cepheid variable stars. The brightness of these stars varies over a regular cycle. Astronomers have found that the time it takes a Cepheid ...
... brightness, their distance can be estimated even when they are in galaxies or star clusters that are extremely far away. Another example of standard candles are Cepheid variable stars. The brightness of these stars varies over a regular cycle. Astronomers have found that the time it takes a Cepheid ...
R136a1
RMC 136a1 (usually abbreviated to R136a1) is a Wolf-Rayet star located at the center of R136, the central condensation of stars of the large NGC 2070 open cluster in the Tarantula Nebula. It lies at a distance of about 50 kiloparsecs (163,000 light-years) in the Large Magellanic Cloud. It has the highest mass and luminosity of any known star, at 265 M☉ and 8.7 million L☉, and also one of the hottest at over 50,000 K.