Word doc - UC-HiPACC - University of California, Santa Cruz
... The team secured several precious days of observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope in November and December 2013 to obtain measurements of the planet over three nearly consecutive orbits with Wide Field Camera 3. They also acquired data from three primary transits (where the planet crossed direc ...
... The team secured several precious days of observing time on the Hubble Space Telescope in November and December 2013 to obtain measurements of the planet over three nearly consecutive orbits with Wide Field Camera 3. They also acquired data from three primary transits (where the planet crossed direc ...
Beginnings - Big Picture
... gravity pulls material within the collapsing cloud together, the centre of the cloud becomes more compressed and hotter. This dense, hot core becomes the centre of a new star. Not all of the material makes it into the stars, however. The Hubble Space Telescope has seen newly forming stars surrounded ...
... gravity pulls material within the collapsing cloud together, the centre of the cloud becomes more compressed and hotter. This dense, hot core becomes the centre of a new star. Not all of the material makes it into the stars, however. The Hubble Space Telescope has seen newly forming stars surrounded ...
Astronomy Powerpoint
... Life Cycle of a star • Begins as a cloud of gas • Core reaches 1 million C, energy is given off • When most of the hydrogen is used up, becomes a red giant • Depending on size, becomes a white dwarf or a supernova ...
... Life Cycle of a star • Begins as a cloud of gas • Core reaches 1 million C, energy is given off • When most of the hydrogen is used up, becomes a red giant • Depending on size, becomes a white dwarf or a supernova ...
Tools of Modern Astronomy:
... Read pages 784-790 in the textbook to find the answers to the question below. Use the back of this page or a sheet of binder paper if you need more room for the answers. 1. What did enslaved African Americans follow as they moved north to the Free States? What are constellations? 2. What are stars? ...
... Read pages 784-790 in the textbook to find the answers to the question below. Use the back of this page or a sheet of binder paper if you need more room for the answers. 1. What did enslaved African Americans follow as they moved north to the Free States? What are constellations? 2. What are stars? ...
Lucio Piccirillo, Introduction: Previous BPol instrumental design
... •A European mission to get a CMB polarization measurement limited only by natural foreground sources was proposed in response to the ESA Cosmic-Vision call. •The mission is based on the availability of large format arrays of ultra-sensitive bolometric detectors, cooled at 0.1K, and fed by cold corru ...
... •A European mission to get a CMB polarization measurement limited only by natural foreground sources was proposed in response to the ESA Cosmic-Vision call. •The mission is based on the availability of large format arrays of ultra-sensitive bolometric detectors, cooled at 0.1K, and fed by cold corru ...
Space Exploration Jeopardy - Unit 5
... What planet is so hot and has a thick atmosphere of CO2 that would crush you? ...
... What planet is so hot and has a thick atmosphere of CO2 that would crush you? ...
Space Physics Questions
... The diagram above shows a refracting telescope used by astronomers. a) What do the astronomers view with a refracting telescope? b) Which lens, the objective or the eyepiece has the longer focal length? c) What is the purpose of the objective lens? d) What is the purpose of the eyepiece lens? e) If ...
... The diagram above shows a refracting telescope used by astronomers. a) What do the astronomers view with a refracting telescope? b) Which lens, the objective or the eyepiece has the longer focal length? c) What is the purpose of the objective lens? d) What is the purpose of the eyepiece lens? e) If ...
How ideas of the universe have changed over time
... The shorter this is, the faster the planet moves in its orbit Because of the Sun’s gravity being stronger when you’re closer to it Earth is moving faster than Mars, Mars is faster thanJupiter ...
... The shorter this is, the faster the planet moves in its orbit Because of the Sun’s gravity being stronger when you’re closer to it Earth is moving faster than Mars, Mars is faster thanJupiter ...
Tools for Studying Space
... the atmosphere, clouds, and the weather; viewing is possible 24 hours a day; they can “see” through interstellar dust clouds that obscure visible wavelengths Radio telescopes have revealed spectacular events (the collision of two galaxies!) ...
... the atmosphere, clouds, and the weather; viewing is possible 24 hours a day; they can “see” through interstellar dust clouds that obscure visible wavelengths Radio telescopes have revealed spectacular events (the collision of two galaxies!) ...
07 May: Omnis In Exitu Eius Pulchrima
... velocity variations as large as observed, a planet would have to be as large as Jupiter, but much, much closer to the star than Mercury is to the Sun ...
... velocity variations as large as observed, a planet would have to be as large as Jupiter, but much, much closer to the star than Mercury is to the Sun ...
... C. The distance between two successive peaks on a wave. D. The annual path of the Sun on the celestial sphere; the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. E. A telescope designed to detect radio waves. F. The average distance between the Earth and the Sun: 1.5xl08 km. G. The apparent change in po ...
“Baby Stars in the Universe”
... Burton and find out about the early life of stars, how star-‐spots are detected, what this tells us about both the age and evolution of stars, and how this increases our understanding of the Unive ...
... Burton and find out about the early life of stars, how star-‐spots are detected, what this tells us about both the age and evolution of stars, and how this increases our understanding of the Unive ...
The definition of a microscope: An instrument for viewing objects that
... Circa 1284 - Italian, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses. Hans Lippershey (ca. 1570-1619), a German-Dutch lens grinder and spectacle (glasses) maker, is generally credited with inventing the telescope. This is because in 1608 Lippsershey became the first scien ...
... Circa 1284 - Italian, Salvino D'Armate is credited with inventing the first wearable eye glasses. Hans Lippershey (ca. 1570-1619), a German-Dutch lens grinder and spectacle (glasses) maker, is generally credited with inventing the telescope. This is because in 1608 Lippsershey became the first scien ...
Hubble Telescope Pictures
... Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way. ...
... Starry Night, so named because it reminded astronomers of the Van Gogh painting. It is a halo of light around a star in the Milky Way. ...
Planetary Portraits - a Nature News Feature.
... oceans remain mission impossible for now, but the first visible-light images of Jupitersized planets may be taken sooner than even optimists had thought. Cutting the odds Ground-based telescopes can already photograph brown dwarfs — objects that are intermediate in size between planets and stars — u ...
... oceans remain mission impossible for now, but the first visible-light images of Jupitersized planets may be taken sooner than even optimists had thought. Cutting the odds Ground-based telescopes can already photograph brown dwarfs — objects that are intermediate in size between planets and stars — u ...
Technology and Science Quiz Answer Key
... 6. How did Galileo’s discoveries with his telescope help give birth to modern Western science? Galileo’s discoveries with this telescope provided evidence that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the solar system. This new view of the solar system started the scientific revolution that gave birt ...
... 6. How did Galileo’s discoveries with his telescope help give birth to modern Western science? Galileo’s discoveries with this telescope provided evidence that the sun, not Earth, is at the center of the solar system. This new view of the solar system started the scientific revolution that gave birt ...
the_young_astronomers_newsletter-NL1304-F
... fingerprints, or spectra, of a distant system's four red exoplanets, which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth. These warm, red planets (HR 8799) are unlike any other known object in our universe. All four planets have different spectra, and all four are peculiar. They said that the spectra ...
... fingerprints, or spectra, of a distant system's four red exoplanets, which orbit a star 128 light years away from Earth. These warm, red planets (HR 8799) are unlike any other known object in our universe. All four planets have different spectra, and all four are peculiar. They said that the spectra ...
Ch. 5
... What advantages does the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have over ground-based telescopes? List some disadvantages. The Hubble Space Telescope is not affected by blurring in the Earth’s atmosphere because it orbits above the atmosphere. It can also observe at wavelengths that are absorbed by Earth’s a ...
... What advantages does the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) have over ground-based telescopes? List some disadvantages. The Hubble Space Telescope is not affected by blurring in the Earth’s atmosphere because it orbits above the atmosphere. It can also observe at wavelengths that are absorbed by Earth’s a ...
jwhitney - Astronomy at Western Kentucky University
... CCD camera to obtain data for key science projects. Our primary goal is the monitoring of the brightness variations of Active Galactic Nuclei and using these variations to investigate the physics at work in these objects. Working from a control room on WKU's campus, the telescope and camera are cont ...
... CCD camera to obtain data for key science projects. Our primary goal is the monitoring of the brightness variations of Active Galactic Nuclei and using these variations to investigate the physics at work in these objects. Working from a control room on WKU's campus, the telescope and camera are cont ...
Milky Way bubbly
... of ice (1 g cm –3) and rock (typically 2.5–3 g cm –3, although Earth’s density is 5.5 g cm –3 on average) suggests an interior made of exotic materials such as “hot ice” or “superfluid water”. A theory of planet formation suggests that such a planet formed in the outer parts of a stellar nebula, whe ...
... of ice (1 g cm –3) and rock (typically 2.5–3 g cm –3, although Earth’s density is 5.5 g cm –3 on average) suggests an interior made of exotic materials such as “hot ice” or “superfluid water”. A theory of planet formation suggests that such a planet formed in the outer parts of a stellar nebula, whe ...
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.