No. 53 - Institute for Astronomy
... marked contrast to other hypervelocity stars: it is a rapidly rotating, compact helium star that probably formed as a result of interaction with a close companion. Helium stars ...
... marked contrast to other hypervelocity stars: it is a rapidly rotating, compact helium star that probably formed as a result of interaction with a close companion. Helium stars ...
Naked Eye, Binocular, or Small Backyard Telescope Night Sky
... Basic Scientific Content Information about what you can see in the night sky with your naked eye, binoculars, or a small telescope: 1.) The Moon – The Moon is the only natural satelli ...
... Basic Scientific Content Information about what you can see in the night sky with your naked eye, binoculars, or a small telescope: 1.) The Moon – The Moon is the only natural satelli ...
Friday, August 28 - Otterbein University
... • Their positions are related because – the direction of Polaris defines the rotation axis of the celestial sphere – The sun is somewhere on the sphere – From a “skewed” perspective everything on the sphere culminates on the meridian ...
... • Their positions are related because – the direction of Polaris defines the rotation axis of the celestial sphere – The sun is somewhere on the sphere – From a “skewed” perspective everything on the sphere culminates on the meridian ...
Galaxies and Stars
... Stars Stars are burning balls of gas and dust. Stars come in various size and brightness. Stars are compared using an H-R diagram. Groups of stars are called clusters. ...
... Stars Stars are burning balls of gas and dust. Stars come in various size and brightness. Stars are compared using an H-R diagram. Groups of stars are called clusters. ...
Dec 2017 - What`s Out Tonight?
... and hugs close to the Sun, so you see it for a short time in the longer in its group. west after sunset or in the east before sunrise. Jupiter can be out Globular Clusters look like fuzzy balls because they contain all night and always outshines any star. Everyone enjoys its 4 tens of thousands star ...
... and hugs close to the Sun, so you see it for a short time in the longer in its group. west after sunset or in the east before sunrise. Jupiter can be out Globular Clusters look like fuzzy balls because they contain all night and always outshines any star. Everyone enjoys its 4 tens of thousands star ...
Day 1: How to Describe the Sky The Motions of the Stars
... • When an astronomer describes the altitude of something in the local sky, he or she means • A: how high something is in the sky, in units of miles or kilometers. • B: how high something is in the sky, in units of degrees. • C: the direction toward something North, South, East, or West. ...
... • When an astronomer describes the altitude of something in the local sky, he or she means • A: how high something is in the sky, in units of miles or kilometers. • B: how high something is in the sky, in units of degrees. • C: the direction toward something North, South, East, or West. ...
Earth and Stars
... position A. 6 months later, the Earth has moved around the Sun to position B - this provides a baseline of 2AU. Compared to the more distant 'fixed' stars, the foreground star has moved on the sky by an ...
... position A. 6 months later, the Earth has moved around the Sun to position B - this provides a baseline of 2AU. Compared to the more distant 'fixed' stars, the foreground star has moved on the sky by an ...
3.1 Using Technology
... appears as blue, X-ray data from Chandra is coded red, and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope appears green. The anomalous arms appear as purple and blue emission. ...
... appears as blue, X-ray data from Chandra is coded red, and infrared data from the Spitzer Space Telescope appears green. The anomalous arms appear as purple and blue emission. ...
Introduction to Astronomy - Northumberland Astronomical Society
... Every point on the sky can be specified by two numbers: Declination an angle measured north or south of the celestial equator. The North Celestial Pole is at +90◦ and the South Celestial Pole at −90◦ . Right Ascension an angle measured from a zero line (the First Point of Aries) to the object line. ...
... Every point on the sky can be specified by two numbers: Declination an angle measured north or south of the celestial equator. The North Celestial Pole is at +90◦ and the South Celestial Pole at −90◦ . Right Ascension an angle measured from a zero line (the First Point of Aries) to the object line. ...
Highlights of the Month - Bridgend Astronomical Society
... spiral arm. the dust comes from elements such as carbon which have been built up in stars and ejected into space in explosions that give rise to objects such as the planetary nebula M57 described above. Deneb,the arabic word for "tail", is a 1.3 magnitude star which marks the tail of the swan. It is ...
... spiral arm. the dust comes from elements such as carbon which have been built up in stars and ejected into space in explosions that give rise to objects such as the planetary nebula M57 described above. Deneb,the arabic word for "tail", is a 1.3 magnitude star which marks the tail of the swan. It is ...
Phys 214. Planets and Life
... A star that exhausts its hydrogen core begins to grow larger and brighter, becoming a giant or supergiant star. Habitable planets are around stars that are in the long-lasting H-fusing stage of their life. When stars finished the fusion fuel they die. Relatively low-mass stars like our sun eject the ...
... A star that exhausts its hydrogen core begins to grow larger and brighter, becoming a giant or supergiant star. Habitable planets are around stars that are in the long-lasting H-fusing stage of their life. When stars finished the fusion fuel they die. Relatively low-mass stars like our sun eject the ...
Measuring the Sky - Physics and Astronomy and more!
... our sun is part of a similar cluster of stars stars in our cluster are roughly the same brightness (variations in brightness are due to variations in distance) stars in our cluster are distributed uniformly (thickness of the cluster in any given part of the sky can be deduced from the numbers ...
... our sun is part of a similar cluster of stars stars in our cluster are roughly the same brightness (variations in brightness are due to variations in distance) stars in our cluster are distributed uniformly (thickness of the cluster in any given part of the sky can be deduced from the numbers ...
Worksheet 6A
... The World Solar Challenge in 1987 was the first car race in which all the vehicles were solar powered. The winner was the GM Sunraycer, which had a mass of 177.4 kg, not counting the driver’s mass. Assume that the driver had a mass of 61.5 kg, so that the total momentum of the car and driver had a m ...
... The World Solar Challenge in 1987 was the first car race in which all the vehicles were solar powered. The winner was the GM Sunraycer, which had a mass of 177.4 kg, not counting the driver’s mass. Assume that the driver had a mass of 61.5 kg, so that the total momentum of the car and driver had a m ...
22 pm - Starmap
... With a telescope is appears as two faint spots, being the cores of the galaxies. ...
... With a telescope is appears as two faint spots, being the cores of the galaxies. ...
Astronomy Assignment #1
... and state your answer in a complete sentence. Failure to complete all three of these tasks will result in less than full credit awarded. The Instructor assigned topic must be typed. Text Problems: Answer the following Review Questions from Nick Strobel’s AstronomyNotes: Chapter 3: Astronomy Without ...
... and state your answer in a complete sentence. Failure to complete all three of these tasks will result in less than full credit awarded. The Instructor assigned topic must be typed. Text Problems: Answer the following Review Questions from Nick Strobel’s AstronomyNotes: Chapter 3: Astronomy Without ...
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.