The Cosmic Perspective‚ 7e (Bennett et al.) Chapter 19 Our Galaxy 19.1 Multiple-Choice Questions 1) What is the diameter of the disk of the Milky Way? A) 100 light-years B) 1‚000 light-years C) 10‚000 light-years D) 100‚000 light-years E) 1‚000‚000 light-years Answer: D 2) What is the thickness of the disk of the Milky Way? A) 100 light-years B) 1‚000 light-years C) 10‚000 light-years D) 100‚000 light-years E) 1‚000‚000 light-years Answer: B 3) What kinds of objects lie in the
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Local Group. The Andromeda Galaxy‚ a spiral galaxy closet to our solar system‚ is now known to be the edge and rim of our Milky Way. Even though the Andromeda Galaxy is bigger than the Milky Way Galaxy‚ both of these galaxies have many similarities. Astronomers in today’s world base their scientific observations off of the Andromeda Galaxy to make assumptions about the Milky Way. Astronomers have concluded that the Andromeda Galaxy‚ or M31‚ is about 2.5 million light- years away‚ with the entire galaxy
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Extra Credit Cosmos: A Space-Time Odyssey Neil deGrasse Tyson • Episode 1: “Standing Up in the Milky Way” • Episode 2: “Some Things That Molecules Do” To watch episodes try Hulu+‚ OnDemand‚ http://www.cosmosontv.com/‚ and googling for streaming video For this extra credit assignment watch these two episodes and complete two one page reading responses on each episode. DO NOT SUMMARIZE. I want to know what you think about deGrasse Tyson’s approach to the topic of science and science education;
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discovery of galaxies outside of the Milky Way‚ the expanding universe‚ and overseeing the construction of the Hale Telescope. Because of his major contributions to the study of Astronomy‚ the Hubble Space Telescope was named after him in 1990. One of Hubble’s first discoveries was that there are other Galaxies outside of our Galaxy‚ the Milky Way. In the 1920s‚ the small‚ diffuse patches in the sky were termed nebulae‚ and were thought to exist within the Milky Way. While examining images of the galaxies
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it can inspire our lives. Wordsworth uses images to describe the scene to the reader‚ like a painting on a canvas; that explains vividly how the poet saw it. An example of the creativity is how the daffodils presented an almost human quality in the way they resemble dancers dancing in unison as if presenting a show. At the end of every alternate line of the poem there is a rhyming word‚ giving the poem both continuity and a sense of rhythm throughout. For my conceptual analysis I chose ‘nature thrives
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questions are each worth five points. 1. Suppose we look at a distant quasar. If an inhabitant of the host galaxy of that quasar looked at the Milky Way at the same time we looked at their galaxy‚ what kind of object might they see? Explain. How would the color of light they observe be different than the color of light emitted by the Milky Way? Explain. 2. What is Hubble’s Law and how can it tell us the distance to a galaxy? Hubble’s Law contains a constant (labeled H‚ the slope of a
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children in baskets strung from a shoulder pole‚ off on a chase after the empress. The pursuit enraged the empress‚ who took her hairpin and slashed it across the sky creating the Milky Way which separated husband from wife. But all was not lost as magpies‚ moved by their love and devotion‚ formed a bridge across the Milky Way to reunite the family. Even the Jade Emperor was touched‚ and allowed Niulang and Zhinu to meet once a year on the seventh night of the seventh month. This is how Qixi came to
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system? 2) What is the Milky Way galaxy and the sun’s position in it? 3) What is the Big Bang and what does it say about the age of the universe? 4) What is meant by the phase “looking out in the universe is looking back in time? b. Where are we in the universe? 1) What is Earth’s place in the solar system? 2) How close are the nearest stars to the Sun as compared to the distance between the Sun and the Earth? 3) How large is our Milky Way galaxy? 4) How many stars
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the Great Andromeda Nebula in older texts. The Andromeda Galaxy is the nearest spiral galaxy to our Milky Way galaxy‚ but not the closest galaxy overall. It gets its name from the area of the sky in which it appears‚ the constellation of Andromeda‚ which was named after the mythological princess Andromeda. The Andromeda Galaxy is the largest galaxy of the Local Group‚ which also contains the Milky Way‚ the Triangulum Galaxy‚ and about 30 other smaller galaxies. Although the largest‚ the Andromeda Galaxy
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STUDY GUIDE for PHYS 1403 online Astronomy I 1. What is the meaning of the word cosmos? 2. How many stars are in the Milky Way Galaxy? 3. How far across is the Milky Way Galaxy? 4. Where is the Sun located in the Milky Way Galaxy? 5. What is the age of the universe thought to be? 6. What is nuclear fusion? 7. Why does Carl Sagan say we are made of star stuff? 8. What is the Sun mainly made of? 9. What is an astronomical unit? Parsec? Light year? 10. What important discovery did Hubble
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