Slide 1 By: Casey Jones & Wade Phelps Our Place In Space Milky Way Galaxy -Stretches approximately 100,000 light years in diameter. -Spiral Formation Galaxy. -Super-massive…

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Slide 1 Size and Scale of the Universe Image courtesy of The Cosmic Perspective by Bennett, Donahue, Schneider, & Voit; Addison Wesley, 2002 Slide 2 Earth Planet where…

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Slide 1 Chapter 25: Quasars and active galaxies Features of quasars Quasars and distant galaxies Seyfert and radio galaxies Active galactic nuclei Supermassive black holes…

Slide 1 Announcements Reading for next class: Chapters 21 & 22 Cosmos Assignment 3, Due Monday, April 19  1. Astronomy Place tutorial “Measuring Cosmic Distances”,…

Fun Internet Resources and the Galaxy Zoo Hands-On Activity Resources Astronomical Society of the Pacific: http://www.astrosociety.org/education/activities/handson.html Nebraska…

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* * Digging the Fourth Grave For Naturalism – No “Dark Energy” Christopher Chui, PhD Acknowledgment: I am indebted to numerous sources in the Internet, NASA photos,…