What is the Milky Way? What is the Milky Way?A galaxy is huge formation of star-systems that together form a cluster that rotates about a common center of mass. Home to our…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Galaxies GALAXIES Slide 3 Stars are not randomly sprinkled throughout the universe. Most astronomers agree that there are about 100 billion galaxies in the…

Slide 1 Created by: R. Hallett-Njuguna, SCPS Comparing Objects in Space How do the objects above compare to Earth in terms of size, distance from the Sun, and atmospheric…

Welcome to Chemistry Monday September 10, 2012 (The First Galaxies; Videos HTUW: The Big Bang, Parts 6 & 7) The Launch Pad Monday, 9/10/12 Respond to the following statements…

 A galaxy is a group of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity. • The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy whose disk is about 100,000 light-years wide and about…

25.3 The Universe Do Now Put the following in order from largest to smallest Galaxy Earth’s Moon Sun Universe Planet (Earth) Solar system What is the name of our Galaxy?…

Winged and X-shaped radio galaxies Gijs Verdoes Kleijn OmegaCEN / Kapteyn Astronomical Institute University of Groningen, NL Teddy Cheung (NASA/Goddard, USA), Hermine Landt…

Chapter 25 Beyond Our Solar System 25.3 The Universe  A galaxy is a group of stars, dust, and gases held together by gravity. • The Milky Way is a large spiral galaxy…

Transients in the Local Universe Transients in the Local Universe Mansi M. Kasliwal (Caltech) On behalf of the PALOMAR TRANSIENT FACTORY The Eventful Universe March 18, 2010…

Galaxies Galaxies Milky Way A galaxy is a large, isolated system of stars held together by gravitational forces. Our Solar System is located in the Milky Way Galaxy. Structure…