News flash ALMA observes a protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri. This is the first time we can DIRECTLY actually observe a planetary system.

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News flash ALMA observes a protoplanetary disk around the young star HL Tauri. This is the first time we can DIRECTLY actually observe a planetary system in formation around another star. Source: http://www.eso.org/public/news/eso1436/

Our Galaxy Please read Chapter 14 Astronomy 103 Our Galaxy Please read Chapter 14

Galactic Structure Diameter of disk ~ 100,000 ly The spiral arms are in the disk, outside the bulge. Nearly all the gas and dust, and new stars are in the disk and bulge The disk rotates about the galaxy’s center, at first with stars closer to the central bulge moving faster than stars farther away, and with velocity approximately constant at larger radii The Sun sits at 8000 pc from the Galactic Center in the disk and moves once around the Galaxy every 225 million years

Alternatives (1): Spiral density waves If we apply this traffic jam analogy to stars, we can produce a spiral like pattern. The spiral arms are just the slow regions of stellar traffic, and stars move through them

Alternatives (1): Spiral density waves Compare the previous movie with this one, in which the stars stay fixed relative to the spiral arms. This is not what we think happens.

Milky Way's own Black Hole Observations of orbiting stars near the Galaxy's center show that about 4 million solar masses lie within 6 light-hours of the center. From the stars’ distance from the center and the very short time it takes them to complete their orbits, one finds that they are orbiting something whose mass is 3.7 million times the mass of the Sun! All of that mass is squeezed into something smaller than a few light-days across – about the size of the solar system. This strongly suggests that there is a 4-million solar mass black hole in the center of the Galaxy.

Observing Stars in the Galactic Center 1) Lots of dust → Can’t see in visible light, so observe in IR 2) Want to resolve stars on very small orbits, so need high spatial resolution → Adaptive optics correct for the blurring of the atmosphere

A Supermassive Black Hole Applying Kepler’s third law to the orbits of the stars gives a mass for the central black hole of 3.7 million solar masses This is a large black hole, but it’s only about 0.0004% of the total mass of the Galaxy As we’ll see later, most galaxies have massive black holes at their centers, and many of them are much more massive than ours