Slide 1 Slide 2 Objectives Determine the size and shape of the Milky Way, as well as Earths location within it. The Milky Way Galaxy Describe how the Milky Way formed. –variable…
Slide 1Chapter 15: Chapter 15: The Milky Way Galaxy Slide 2 WHAT DO YOU THINK? How many stars does the Milky Way Galaxy contain? Where is our Solar System located in the…
Slide 1Signatures of Energy Injection in the CMB Rutgers University High Energy Theory Seminar 10/18/2011 Tracy Slatyer, Institute for Advanced Study based on arXiv:1109.6322…
Slide 1 What is a Galaxy? Friday, October 10 Next Planetarium Show: Wed, Oct 15 Slide 2 Are stars distributed uniformly through space, or do they clump together? Astronomers…
Slide 1 Announcements Test this week (all about stars) Turn in Homework 11 today Pick up Homework 12 Questions on last 3 assignments? Second project is due December 1 Slide…
Slide 1Lesson Essential Question: Which season (in the NH) is represented at: #1 What two things cause the seasons? What are the causes and effects of the seasons? 1 Slide…
Slide 1 Slide 2 flow in the upper 1,000 meters of ocean driven by global winds N. and S. hemispheres each have two circulations caused by the Coriolis Effect clockwise in…
Slide 1 Announcements Pick up graded homework Seminar on gravitational waves today, 1:00, SL 240 No class this Friday! Test next week on material through today’s class…
Slide 1 This Week Solar and Terrestrial Radiation Earth’s Energy Balance (Simple Climate Models!) The Greenhouse Effect Climate Forcings Aerosols, Clouds and the Planetary…
Slide 1 Slide 2 Chapter 31 Galaxies & the Universe Slide 3 Review & Recap It does this by precisely measuring the speed of gas and stars around a black hole. This…