Slide 1 Meditating on the Universe A Prayer Song Slide 2 an eastwind production [email protected] Meditating on the Universe A Prayer Song Slide 3…

Slide 1 The Cosmic Cupboard How do astronomers know what elements are in the universe to make planets from? What is the cosmic abundance of elements? What molecules will…

Galaxies Our Universe Structure Smallest to largest: PlanetsStars/Solar systemsGalaxiesGalaxy ClustersUniverse Universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies.…

SPHEROIDAL POPULATED STAR SYSTEMS Pietro Giannone Dipartimento di Fisica Universitaâ âSapienzaâ Roma SUMMARY Globular clusters and star evolution Elliptical galaxies Population…

Kinematic Evidence of Different PN Populations in Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697 Niranjan Sambhus, Ortwin Gerhard Astronomy Institute, University of Basel, Switzerland &…

Deep PN surveys in galaxies beyond the Local Group Roberto H. Mendez Institute for Astronomy, Honolulu Outline of this talk: 1. Motivations for deep surveys beyond the Local…

Unit 2: Very Small and Far Away: Measuring and Observing Extremes Resembling a gigantic hubcap in space, a 3,700-light-year-wide dust disk encircles a 300-million- solar-mass…

SPHEROIDAL POPULATED STAR SYSTEMS Pietro Giannone Dipartimento di Fisica Universitaâ âSapienzaâ Roma SUMMARY Globular clusters and star evolution Elliptical galaxies Population…

Galaxies Our Universe Structure Smallest to largest: PlanetsStars/Solar systemsGalaxiesGalaxy ClustersUniverse Universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies.…

Galaxies Galaxies and Super structures Hubble Deep Field HDF-Representing a narrow "keyhole" view stretching to the visible horizon of the universe, the Hubble…