Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Monday, May 9, 2011

Friday, May 6, 2011

Lab: Exploring the Universe using SDSS


Today, you will be looking through data as you hunt for items for a scavenger hunt.  Your data sheet is here, based on the activity found at SDSS

Thursday, May 5, 2011

Alternative Stellar Endpoints

http://chandra.harvard.edu/edu/formal/stellar_ev/stellar_ev.pdf


 Black Holes


http://apod.nasa.gov/htmltest/rjn_bht.html

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l2/black_holes.html

http://www.spacetimetravel.org/isl/isl.html

http://hubblesite.org/explore_astronomy/black_holes/home.html

Neutron Stars

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/pulsars.html

Supernovas

http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/science/know_l1/supernovae.html

What is a Black Hole?

Be ready to discuss tomorrow, using information found here

Galaxy

http://zebu.uoregon.edu/~soper/Galaxies/distribution.html

http://www.sdss.org/includes/sideimages/sdss_pie2.jpg




Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.

The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.

Monday, May 2, 2011

Using the HR Diagram for research.





Take notes on the factors affecting HR placement.

Complete the lab on HR masses with a partner and hand in.