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Beyond Our
Solar System
Lagoon Nebula
Earth Science 11th ed.
Pages 660-680
Stellar Parallax
Stellar Parallax
Original Photo
Stellar Parallax
Six months later
Parallax angle
• 1 second of arc = 1/3600 of a degree
• Closest star is 4.3 light years away
• Light year is not a time period, it is a
distance
– How far light travels in a year
– 9.5 trillion kilometers
– 5.8 trillion miles
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Star Colors (time lapse photo)
Equal Mass Stars
One is twice mass of other
Star temperature vs. magnitude
Pulsating magnitude
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Nova Herculis
Orion Nebula
Horsehead Nebula
Dark nebula in Orion
Nova Persei
Pleiades
star
cluster
has
reflection
nebula
Stellar evolution
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Low mass star
Medium mass star
Helix Nebula
Closest
planetary
nebula to
our solar
system
Located in
Aquarius
Eagle Nebula
Supernova 1987A
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Crab
Nebula
Veil
Nebula
Photo taken at Wiltshire, UK observatory
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Part of Veil
Nebula from
Hubble Space
Telescope
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http://www.astrocruise.com/veil.htm
Massive star
http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/
Neutron Star formation
• Pulsar movie link here
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http://imgsrc.hubblesite.org/hu/db/1996/22/videos/b/formats/low_mpeg.mpg
http://www.solstation.com/x-objects/crab-neb.htm
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Binary pair of super giant and
black hole
Great Galaxy in Andromeda
Milky Way
Typical spiral galaxies
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Barred spiral galaxy
Cluster of galaxies
Raisin bread analogy of the
expanding universe
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