Allan Rex Sandage was an American observational cosmologist‚ who seen as one of the most influential astronomers of the 20th century. He rightfully earned the nicknames “Mr. Cosmology” and the “Super Hubble”‚ as continued and refined the work of Edwin Hubble and made many discoveries of his own along they way‚ including discovering the first quasar and producing the first reasonable estimate for the Hubble Constant (h0). Throughout his career‚ some of Sandage’s notable awards include the Helen B
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Doppler effect The Doppler effect‚ named after Christian Doppler‚ is the change in frequency and wavelength of a wave as perceived by an observer moving relative to the source of the waves. For waves that propagate in a wave medium‚ such as sound waves‚ the velocity of the observer and of the source are relative to the medium in which the waves are transmitted. The total Doppler effect may therefore result from motion of the source‚ motion of the observer‚ or motion of the medium. Each of these
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[Type the document title] | The formation of solar systems | | This paper concludes some scientific explanation of how the universe was created. | | | 8/1/2011 | | SCI224 Fundamentals of Astronomy Final Paper ------------------------------------------------- Instructor: William McMullen‚ Ph.D. Name: Johanne Val ------------------------------------------------- Due Date: 8/1/11-Revised Copy For your final paper‚ pick of the three topics below. 1. The formation
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quasar‚ is an extremely distant nucleus to an active galaxy. They are the furthest objects away from our galaxy that can be seen‚ but are visible to us because they are the brightest matter in our universe. Quasars are known to have an extremely high redshift. Though we have not been observing quasars for long enough to determine how they are born‚ they are believed to have been formed by supermassive black holes consuming an enormous amount of matter. This matter forms an accretion disc around the black
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rays‚ radio e) radio‚ X rays‚ visible light‚ ultraviolet‚ infrared‚ gamma rays 5. Evidence of the expansion of the universe is shown by a) the Einstein Cross b) the 4.5 billion year age of the Earth c) the abundances of the elements in stars d) the redshifts of distant galaxies e) time dilation 6. Suppose we look at two distant galaxies: Galaxy 1 is twice as far away as Galaxy 2. In that case‚ a) Galaxy 1 must be twice as big as Galaxy 2 b) we are seeing Galaxy 1 as it looked at an earlier time in the
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In the initial announcement of his discovery‚ Art Hoag proposed the hypothesis that the visible ring was a product of gravitational lensing. This idea was later discarded because the nucleus and the ring have the same redshift‚ and because more advanced telescopes revealed the knotty structure of the ring‚ something that would not be visible if the ring were the product of gravitational lensing. Many of the details of the galaxy remain a mystery‚ foremost of which is
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1. The original Big Bang model had three major problems. The ’fix’ that solved them is known as _________. COSMIC INFLATION THEORY 2. When light from a hot solid‚ liquid‚ or dense gas passes through a cooler gas‚ it will produce a/an _________ spectrum. ATOMIC SPECTRUM 3. One name that has been given the mysterious force apparently responsible for driving the acceleration of the universe’s expansion is _________. DARK ENERGY 4. The area on the H-R diagram where “normal” stars can be found
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Edwin Hubble was born on November 20‚ 1889‚ in Marshfield‚ Missouri. Edwin Hubble served in World War One and also graduated from the University of Chicago. He went down the road in the research in the field of astrophysics at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. He found out a constant relationship between galaxies that helped prove that our universe keeps expanding. Hubble made a classification system that classifies the galaxies that have been used by other researchers for years. Edwin
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galaxies don’t produce much radiation‚ but if there are sources like quasars in the background they can be studied in great detail. Quasars are a very energetic active galactic nucleus‚ they are very luminous‚ and they were first indentified as being redshift sources of electromagnetic sources. Most quasars are known to be three billion light years away. When stars die they leave behind compact objects of some sort like white dwarf or neutron stars. White dwarf is a stellar remnant composed of electron
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Characterizing the Most Extreme Emission Line Galaxies Spring 2014 UROP Proposal Ian Jaeger Background During the first 379‚000 years (redshift z = 1089) after the Big Bang‚ the matter of the universe consisted primarily of free protons‚ electrons and photons. After the matter had cooled and spread out‚ these particles combined to form hydrogen and allowed the photons to freely travel without interacting with free electrons‚ forming what we know of today as the Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB).
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