Session 9: Galaxies. The Main Concepts… 1.A galaxy is a large collection of stars, gas and dust. 2.We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. 3.Our Sun.

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Session 9: Galaxies

The Main Concepts… 1.A galaxy is a large collection of stars, gas and dust. 2.We live in a galaxy called the Milky Way. 3.Our Sun and planets are in the “suburbs” of the Milky Way. 4.There are billions of galaxies in the Universe. 5.Galaxies come in three basic shapes; spiral, elliptical and irregular.

Composition and Size of Galaxies Light takes 100,000 years to cross galaxy (galaxy is 100,000 light years across) Galaxy has about 100,000,000,000 stars

Our View of the Milky Way Galaxy

Another View of Our Galaxy We live in the disk of our galaxy - so we see our galaxy edge-on. To see our galaxy, we need to use light that can get through all the dust in the disk (for example, infrared).

Drawing of Our Own Galaxy…

There Are Billions of Galaxies Small patch of the sky as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope (Ultra Deep Field) Almost every point of light here is a galaxy!

Three Basic Shapes for Galaxies 1. Spiral galaxy  A flat disk with a central bulge  Often has spiral pattern in the disk  The disk spins like a wheel  Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, is a spiral galaxy

Spiral Galaxies from Different Angles

Three Basic Shapes for Galaxies 2. Elliptical galaxy Large round/elliptical “balls” of stars Giant Elliptical Galaxy M87 in Virgo

Three Basic Shapes for Galaxies 3.Irregular galaxy Everything that is not a spiral or an elliptical galaxy! Large Magellanic Cloud

Interacting Galaxies “The Mice”, an example of two galaxies that are colliding with each other.

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