Week of January 22nd
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| Pictured above is a star forming section of one of our nearby galaxies - The Small Magellanic Cloud - a mere 200, 000 light-years away! How do you know that these are relatively young stars? |
Our Week - Really BUSY ONE!
Tuesday: 1. Check/go over bookwork and video notes sheet - Life and Death of a Star 2. "What Does a Star's Light Reveal About a Star?"
Activities for the week - ALL DUE MONDAY, JANUARY 28th end of class
1. Gizmo - Star Spectra - link below - you will need to login with teacher assigned user and password - enter star spectra in search box
2. Spectroscope Lab - packet
3. What's the Story? (Reading Handout)1-4 p. 53, 1-3 p. 54,
1-2 p. 55 - answers in notebooks
4. What Types of Stars are in our Universe? Question Sheet with Graph and Hall Chart Graphing
1-2 p. 55 - answers in notebooks
4. What Types of Stars are in our Universe? Question Sheet with Graph and Hall Chart Graphing
5. Quia Quiz - "Stars and Galaxies" - link posted on Thursday
Astronomy Questions of the Week
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| Doomed Star Eta Carinea - this amazing star - about 100 times larger than our Sun - is heading to the amazing end of a massive star - what would this be? |
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| This is an x-ray image of the center of our Milky Way Galaxy which we think has a black hole in the middle. Astronomers think this due to the x-ray flares shown above - x-rays flares are given off by black holes. What else is given off when a black hole is created? |
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| Of course we needed to take a look at what the Milky Way looks like from the desert - Monument Valley in the Southwest of the USA. What a site! What type of galaxy is the Milky Way, and where is our solar system located in it? |
#1-Neutron Stars
ReplyDelete#2-Spiral, Our solar system is located in the edge of the galaxy
The Milky Way galaxy is a Spiral galaxy, and we are located on the edge of the galaxy.
ReplyDeleteWe are on the edge and we are embedded in the arm so we can see to the sides.
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