Investigation 1 Solar Nebula Theory Student Guide 3_16_13_draft
... Scientists believe that some 13.7 billion years ago all matter, energy and our universe itself was formed from of a huge sudden expansion now known in theory as the “Big Bang”. The matter created from this genesis eventually cooled off, condensed and formed the most basic building blocks of matter k ...
... Scientists believe that some 13.7 billion years ago all matter, energy and our universe itself was formed from of a huge sudden expansion now known in theory as the “Big Bang”. The matter created from this genesis eventually cooled off, condensed and formed the most basic building blocks of matter k ...
the young astronomers newsletter
... ever found - a chunk of space rock about 65 miles in search for extraterrestrial life. But new research diameter beyond the orbit of Mars. It had been seen indicates some such planets may not be hosting life before but then lost. This was one of the faintest because of intense heat during their form ...
... ever found - a chunk of space rock about 65 miles in search for extraterrestrial life. But new research diameter beyond the orbit of Mars. It had been seen indicates some such planets may not be hosting life before but then lost. This was one of the faintest because of intense heat during their form ...
Astro 10 Practice Test 1
... 31. What explains the partially-lit-up appearance of Venus in this picture? a. As Venus orbits the Sun, it moves through the thin gas of interplanetary space, and the frictional heating of its front side makes that side glow. b. The Earth is casting a shadow on Venus, just like it does when making ...
... 31. What explains the partially-lit-up appearance of Venus in this picture? a. As Venus orbits the Sun, it moves through the thin gas of interplanetary space, and the frictional heating of its front side makes that side glow. b. The Earth is casting a shadow on Venus, just like it does when making ...
Chapter 6 Telescopes: Portals of Discovery How does your eye form
... –! It uses refraction to bend parallel light rays so that they form an image. –! The image is in focus if the focal plane is at the retina. •! How do we record images? –! Cameras focus light like your eye and record the image with a detector. –! The detectors (CCDs) in digital cameras are like those ...
... –! It uses refraction to bend parallel light rays so that they form an image. –! The image is in focus if the focal plane is at the retina. •! How do we record images? –! Cameras focus light like your eye and record the image with a detector. –! The detectors (CCDs) in digital cameras are like those ...
society journal - Auckland Astronomical Society
... objects as well as eye-popping computergenerated images of the telescope (which is all they have as it’s not due to be built until 2018!) ...
... objects as well as eye-popping computergenerated images of the telescope (which is all they have as it’s not due to be built until 2018!) ...
MAPLE: Reflected Light from Exoplanets with a 50
... spectrum.2–5 These observations are of planets (gas giants similar to a young Jupiter) whose brightness is 1/100,000 of the parent star. However, all of these planetary systems are believed to be too young, being less than one hundred million years old, to host any kind of life. In mature planetary ...
... spectrum.2–5 These observations are of planets (gas giants similar to a young Jupiter) whose brightness is 1/100,000 of the parent star. However, all of these planetary systems are believed to be too young, being less than one hundred million years old, to host any kind of life. In mature planetary ...
Space I - Aboriginal Access to Engineering
... http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-96 ...
... http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/gallery/images/shuttle/sts-96 ...
Chapter 22 Exploring Space
... 1966: First probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the moon, Luna 9 1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10 1967: First unmanned rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188. (Until 2006, this had remained the only major space achievement that the US had not duplicated.) ...
... 1966: First probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the moon, Luna 9 1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10 1967: First unmanned rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188. (Until 2006, this had remained the only major space achievement that the US had not duplicated.) ...
PPT
... -Have shown that some z=6 I-drops have old stars and large masses (subsequently confirmed by H. Yan et al) -Hints that there may be z>6 galaxies similar (Egami lens). Mobasher source - z=6.5??? (probably lower-z) -Turn now to larger samples, to provide stellar mass density in first Gyr with Spitze ...
... -Have shown that some z=6 I-drops have old stars and large masses (subsequently confirmed by H. Yan et al) -Hints that there may be z>6 galaxies similar (Egami lens). Mobasher source - z=6.5??? (probably lower-z) -Turn now to larger samples, to provide stellar mass density in first Gyr with Spitze ...
SALT/SAAO introduction
... SALT will be the largest single optical-infrared telescope in the southern hemisphere. SALT will detect objects one billion times dimmer than the faintest visible to the unaided eye. It will gather 23 times ax much light as the 1.9-m telescope at Sutherland, currently the largest in Africa. SALT wil ...
... SALT will be the largest single optical-infrared telescope in the southern hemisphere. SALT will detect objects one billion times dimmer than the faintest visible to the unaided eye. It will gather 23 times ax much light as the 1.9-m telescope at Sutherland, currently the largest in Africa. SALT wil ...
Nebula – • The most abundant element in the universe is hydrogen
... A star is a sphere of super-hot gases, mostly hydrogen and helium that is held together by its own gravity. No two stars contain exactly the same elements in the same proportions. Stars are born by contraction of gasses inside a nebula. ...
... A star is a sphere of super-hot gases, mostly hydrogen and helium that is held together by its own gravity. No two stars contain exactly the same elements in the same proportions. Stars are born by contraction of gasses inside a nebula. ...
Telescope Allocation Committee Teacher Guide
... Distribute a set of proposal abstracts to each group. Students may want to read through the proposals before inventing a rubric to evaluate them. Some of the proposals purposely contain spelling and grammatical errors for students to find and incorporate into their evaluation rubric design and their ...
... Distribute a set of proposal abstracts to each group. Students may want to read through the proposals before inventing a rubric to evaluate them. Some of the proposals purposely contain spelling and grammatical errors for students to find and incorporate into their evaluation rubric design and their ...
An adaptively corrected composite material telescope
... next generation of astronomical discoveries. Over the last century the development of the 1.5- and 2.5m telescopes at Mount Wilson Observatory, the 5m at Palomar Observatory, and so on through to the 10m Keck telescopes, have led to new discoveries based on the increase in telescope aperture. The Hu ...
... next generation of astronomical discoveries. Over the last century the development of the 1.5- and 2.5m telescopes at Mount Wilson Observatory, the 5m at Palomar Observatory, and so on through to the 10m Keck telescopes, have led to new discoveries based on the increase in telescope aperture. The Hu ...
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... Cold clouds can be tens of parsecs across. Thousands of times the mass of the Sun. Temperatures 10 – 100 K. In such a cloud: – Something makes a region denser than normal. – Force of gravity draws material to denser region. – Gravitational collapse begins. ...
... Cold clouds can be tens of parsecs across. Thousands of times the mass of the Sun. Temperatures 10 – 100 K. In such a cloud: – Something makes a region denser than normal. – Force of gravity draws material to denser region. – Gravitational collapse begins. ...
1 Do Massive Stars Trigger New Waves of Star Formation
... that lead to their formation are still very much unknown. Astronomers also now believe that stars were the first large objects to form in the early universe. Understanding the origins of stars, and thereby the origins of galaxies and also planets, is one of the major contemporary research areas in a ...
... that lead to their formation are still very much unknown. Astronomers also now believe that stars were the first large objects to form in the early universe. Understanding the origins of stars, and thereby the origins of galaxies and also planets, is one of the major contemporary research areas in a ...
Spitzer Space Telescope
The Spitzer Space Telescope (SST), formerly the Space Infrared Telescope Facility (SIRTF), is an infrared space observatory launched in 2003. It is the fourth and final of the NASA Great Observatories program.The planned mission period was to be 2.5 years with a pre-launch expectation that the mission could extend to five or slightly more years until the onboard liquid helium supply was exhausted. This occurred on 15 May 2009. Without liquid helium to cool the telescope to the very low temperatures needed to operate, most of the instruments are no longer usable. However, the two shortest-wavelength modules of the IRAC camera are still operable with the same sensitivity as before the cryogen was exhausted, and will continue to be used in the Spitzer Warm Mission. All Spitzer data, from both the primary and warm phases, are archived at the Infrared Science Archive (IRSA).In keeping with NASA tradition, the telescope was renamed after its successful demonstration of operation, on 18 December 2003. Unlike most telescopes that are named after famous deceased astronomers by a board of scientists, the new name for SIRTF was obtained from a contest open to the general public.The contest led to the telescope being named in honor of astronomer Lyman Spitzer, who had promoted the concept of space telescopes in the 1940s. Spitzer wrote a 1946 report for RAND Corporation describing the advantages of an extraterrestrial observatory and how it could be realized with available or upcoming technology. He has been cited for his pioneering contributions to rocketry and astronomy, as well as ""his vision and leadership in articulating the advantages and benefits to be realized from the Space Telescope Program.""The US$800 million Spitzer was launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, on a Delta II 7920H ELV rocket, Monday, 25 August 2003 at 13:35:39 UTC-5 (EDT).It follows a heliocentric instead of geocentric orbit, trailing and drifting away from Earth's orbit at approximately 0.1 astronomical unit per year (a so-called ""earth-trailing"" orbit). The primary mirror is 85 centimeters (33 in) in diameter, f/12, made of beryllium and is cooled to 5.5 K (−449.77 °F). The satellite contains three instruments that allow it to perform astronomical imaging and photometry from 3 to 180 micrometers, spectroscopy from 5 to 40 micrometers, and spectrophotometry from 5 to 100 micrometers.