Slide 1 Slide 2 Brightest Star in the night sky Alpha Canis Majoris The Dog Star SIRIUS Sirius b – faint companion Slide 3 Most Distant Star (that you can see!)  Deneb…

Slide 1 Taurus figure by H. A. Rey Slide 2 Or, if you prefer, … Slide 3 Slide 4 Taurus 17 th in size of the 88 constellations 797 sq. degrees – 1.9% of the Celestial…

Extreme Stars E treme Stars Caty Pilachowski Mini-University June 2012 Brightest Star in the night sky Alpha Canis Majoris The Dog Star SIRIUS Sirius b â faint companion…

1.   2.   3. LabeledAll-skyView 4. Crab Nebula (M1) – T1 hm Supernova remnant in constellation Taurus Distance: 6500 LY Size of nebula: about 15 LY Size of pulsar (neutron…

Binary Black Holes and Gravitational Waves Joan Centrella Chief, Gravitational Astrophysics Lab NASA Goddard Space Flight Center National Capitol Astronomers Meeting University…