Slide 1The Science behind the Eagle Nebula Image Howard E. Bond Space Telescope Science Institute and Co-founder, Hubble Heritage Team Slide 2 Dust pillar in the Eagle Nebula,…

Slide 1 The Milky Way Galaxy Chapter 15 Slide 2 The Milky Way Almost everything we see in the night sky belongs to the Milky Way We see most of the Milky Way as a faint band…

Slide 1 Cluster of Excellence: Origin and Structure of the Universe Research Area G: How was the Universe enriched in heavy elements? R. Krücken TU München & MLL A.…

Slide 1 Slide 1 M31: The Andromeda Galaxy 2 million light years from us http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ Slide 2 Slide 2 200 billion stars Milky Way Galaxy 25,000 light…

Slide 1 YSOs: Young Stellar Objects Provide evidence for planet-forming nebular disks around stars Dusty cocoon surrounding YSO Slide 2 Different types of YSOs: 1) IR stars…

Slide 1 Most meteorites formed in the earliest moments of solar system history Early solar system consisted of a planetary nebula-- dust and gas surrounding protostar and…

Slide 1 Our Galaxy The Milky Way Slide 2 The Milky Way Almost everything we see in the night sky belongs to the Milky Way We see most of the Milky Way as a faint band of…

Slide 1 Slide 2 The Hubble Space Telescope - the first 10 years Our only optical telescope in space –Why, when and how Observations –Planets –Stars –Galaxies –Cosmology…

Slide 1 Astronomy By Claire Andrues THE ORION NEBULA (M42) Slide 2 WHERE IS IT LOCATED IN OUR SKY? The Orion Nebula is located in the constellation Orion. It can be located…

Chapter 14 Our Galaxy What does our galaxy look like? The Milky Way galaxy appears in our sky as a faint band of light. Dusty gas clouds obscure our view because they absorb…