A new spectacle in the sky…Comet Holmes. What Comet Holmes looks like…in a small telescope it shows a disk.

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A new spectacle in the sky…Comet Holmes

What Comet Holmes looks like…in a small telescope it shows a disk

Where is Comet Holmes in space? Perihelion=2.166 au Aphelion=5.200 au Period=7.068 yr

Comet Holmes: location in the solar system Question for audience: what’s wrong with this picture? Hint: get your SC1 charts

Stay tuned “Watch the skies! Watch the skies!”

Further (better?) evidence for protoplanetary disks around stars: Fomalhaut

An artist’s conception of the Fomalhaut system now..like the Solar System 4 Gyr ago

My summary of stellar evolution Evolved stars have fused (used up) the hydrogen in their cores The centers of these stars consist of burned out, incredibly dense cores, surrounded by shells where nuclear reactions are occurring The outer parts of the stars get big, red, and bloated Evolved stars move around in the upper part of the HR diagram In an evolved star, its external appearance gives little indication of its internal structure Mass is destiny

Betelgeuse (Alpha Orionis), poster child of an evolved star A Hubble telescope Picture of Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse is a red supergiant Deep in its interior is a Massive, incredibly compact Stellar remnant

When you look at a Main Sequence star, the appearance of it exterior tells you what it is like inside

In an evolved star, the appearance of the surface is not a good indicator of its deep interior

As cores contract, the density goes to “astronomical” levels, matter acts in funny ways Gas in this room, the “perfect gas law” PV=nRT. Pressure depends on both density and temperature Extremely dense, “degenerate” gas PV=Kn. Pressure depends only on density Demo

Old evolved stars throw off their outer layers, revealing the weird cores

These compact cores exist….the white dwarf stars Nearby examples: Sirius B and Procyon B

The physics of white dwarf stars What holds them up? What determines their properties?