Astronomy Picture of the Day (2007 Oct. 1)

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Astronomy Picture of the Day (2007 Oct. 1) The Small Cloud of Magellan Credit & Copyright: Stéphane Guisard Explanation: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan and his crew had plenty of time to study the southern sky during the first circumnavigation of planet Earth. As a result, two celestial wonders easily visible for southern hemisphere skygazers are known as the Clouds of Magellan. These cosmic clouds are now understood to be dwarf irregular galaxies, satellites of our larger spiral Milky Way Galaxy. The Small Magellanic Cloud pictured above actually spans 15,000 light-years or so and contains several hundred million stars. About 210,000 light-years distant in the constellation Tucana, it is the fourth closest of the Milky Way's known satellite galaxies, after the Canis Major and Sagittarius Dwarf galaxies and the Large Magellanic Cloud. This gorgeous view also includes two foreground globular star clusters NGC 362 (top left) and 47 Tucanae. Spectacular 47 Tucanae is a mere 13,000 light-years away and seen here to the left of the Small Magellanic Cloud. The Small Cloud of Magellan

Advanced Question Chap. 4, Q43 in P93 Suppose that you travelled to a planet with 4 times the mass and 4 times the diameter of the Earth. Would you weigh more or less on that planet than on Earth? By what factor?

Advanced Question Chap. 4, Q43 in P93 Answer: ¼ as much. Using the Newton’s law of universal gravitation Weight on Earth of your mass m: Weight on the planet of your mass m: