1. PX269 Galaxies 7.5 CATs; ~18 lectures; follows from PX268 Stars Dr Peter Wheatley p.j.wheatley@warwick.ac.uk Office: PS009

2. PX269 Galaxies Books

3. PX269 Galaxies Books II

4. PX269 Galaxies Books III

5. PX269 Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

6. PX269 Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

7. PX269 Galaxies Galileo Galilei 1609

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10. Cassini probe Galileo’s sketch

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12. Europa Io Ganymede Callisto Kurt Friedrich

13. SIDEREAL MESSENGER unfolding great and very wonderful sights and displaying to the gaze of everyone, but especially philosophers and astronomers, the things that were observed by GALILEO GALILEI, Florentine patrician and public mathematician of the University of Padua, with the help of a spyglass lately devised by him, about the face of the Moon, countless fixed stars, the Milky Way, nebulous stars, but especially about four planets flying around the star of Jupiter at unequal intervals and periods with wonderful swiftness; which, unknown by anyone until this day, the first author detected recently and decided to name MEDICEAN STARS The Starry Messenger, Galileo Galilei 1610

14. PX269 Galaxies Milky Way Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

15. PX269 Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

16. PX269 Galaxies 1750s Thomas Wright Immanuel Kant

17. Rich Townsend, UCL

18. PX269 Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

19. PX269 Galaxies Charles Messier

20. Andromeda Galaxy = M31 = NGC 224

21. PX269 Galaxies Henrietta Swan Leavitt Log Period [d] Magnitude

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23. Edwin Hubble 100-inch Mt Wilson telescope

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25. Hubble Deep Field 1,000,000 sec exposure Seeing 100 billion times fainter than human eye… …and half way back to the beginning of time.

28. M87 an elliptical galaxy CFHT

29. PX269 Galaxies NGC 2768 An elliptical galaxy

30. NGC 1316

31. M 51 the Whirlpool Galaxy

32. NGC 1300 a barred spiral galaxy

33. Dust extinction in the Sombrero Galaxy = M 104

34. NGC 1427A a dwarf irregular galaxy

35. M 51 the Whirlpool Galaxy

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43. Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

45. Herschel, 1785

46. PX269 Galaxies Globular cluster 47 Tuc, 2MASS

47. PX269 Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii Extinction in plane of Milky Way

48. NGC 891, showing extinction Adam Block

49. PX269 Galaxies Ngc 2997 Eso Face on milky way

50. PX269 Galaxies Ngc 2997 norma rose observatory

51. PX269 Galaxies Ngc 891 Adam Block (RC optical systems)

52. PX269 Galaxies Ngc 6744, aao

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55. NGC 6744, Milky Way-like galaxy Capella Observatory

56. PX269 Galaxies NGC 6744, HI, Ryder et al 1999

57. M 51 the Whirlpool Galaxy HII regions

58. Mike Fleenor

59. PX269 Galaxies NGC 6744, HI, Ryder et al 1999

60. PX269 Galaxies 21cm map of Milky Way

61. PX269 Galaxies Molecular clouds

62. PX269 Galaxies Interstellar reddening

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64. Philip Perkins Pleiades open cluster

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66. CFHT 2MASS NGC 891 OpticalInfra-red

67. PX269 Galaxies Wei-Hao Wang University of Hawaii

68. PX269 Galaxies COBE/DIRBE near infrared image of whole sky

70. PX269 Galaxies Galactic co-ordinates

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77. HI map of whole sky

78. PX269 Galaxies 21 cm line profile along one line of sight

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80. Rotation curve of Milky Way

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83. First detection of a gravitational microlensing event Alcock et al 1993

84. PX269 Galaxies Discovery of a 5 Earth mass planet Beaulieu et al 2006