1 how telescopes changed our understanding of the universe stsci and nasa
TRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
1
How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the
Universe
STScI and NASA
![Page 2: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
2
Before Telescopes
We only had our eyes . . .
and a variety of measuring instruments.
![Page 3: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
3
Is Earth the center of
the universe?
How far are the stars?
What are they made of?
Is there morethan one galaxy?
Did the universehave a
beginning?Are there
other planetsoutside of our solar system?
Is the Solar System
at the center of
the Galaxy?
And we had many questions…
![Page 4: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
4
Is Earth the center of
the universe?
Copernicus said “Sun”
Aristotle said “Earth”
Big Question 1: Is Earth or Sun at the center?
![Page 5: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
5
Galileo observes Venus
Earth-centered System
Sun-centered System
What Galileo
observed
Used with Permission. Copyright Penn State University.
Venus phases
revealed!
(Play Optional Movies)
![Page 6: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
6
Big Question 2: How far away are the stars?
How far away are the stars?
M34 image courtesy of Glenn Spielgelman
![Page 7: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
7
Parallax if stars were ~5000 times closer
Courtesy of David Nash, www.astronexus.com
![Page 8: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
8
Parallax if stars were ~5000 times closer
Courtesy of David Nash, www.astronexus.com
![Page 9: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
9
Your eyes marking Earth’s Orbit
![Page 10: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
10
Background of stars
Courtesy of David Nash, www.astronexus.com
![Page 11: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
11
Distance to the stars revealed!
Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel
Königsberg Observatory
1838NOW
6 Months Later
![Page 12: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
12
Big Question 3: What are the stars made of?
What are the stars
made of?
![Page 13: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
13
Konigsburg Heliometer
Fraunhofer
1814
Studying the Rainbow
Simulated Spectrum of the Sun
Sun
Courtesy of Dr. John Beck
![Page 14: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
14
What is the Sun made of?
Kirchhoff BunsenOF THE SUN
1859
![Page 15: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
15
Confirmed: The Sun is a Star!
=
The stars are other Suns!
1863
![Page 16: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
16
Big Question 4: Where is the Sun in our Galaxy?
Is the Solar System
at the center of
the Galaxy?
?
Galaxy image credit: Hugo, Gaul, Block (KPNO Visitor Program), NOAO, AURA, NSF (modified)
![Page 17: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
17
Shapley observes dense star clusters . . .
Globular Cluster M13
Courtesy of Glenn Spiegelman
Mount Wilson 60-inch Reflector Telescope (completed in 1914)
Courtesy of Gale Gant
Harlow Shaple
y
Henrietta Leavitt
![Page 18: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
18
Location of the Sun in the Galaxy?
Galaxy image credit: Hugo, Gaul, Block (KPNO Visitor Program), NOAO, AURA, NSF - Globular cluster locations simulated
If the Sun and planets were at the center, globular clusters would be evenly distributed
around us.
What did Shapley discover?
![Page 19: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
19
Location of the Sun in the Galaxy established!
Globular clusters are distributed to one side of us.
The Solar System is nearer the edge of the Galaxy!
1918
Galaxy image credit: Hugo, Gaul, Block (KPNO Visitor Program), NOAO, AURA, NSF - Globular cluster locations simulated
![Page 20: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
20
Big Question 5: One Galaxy or Many?
M31 - Andromeda courtesy of G. Spielgelman
NGC 1232 courtesy of M. Harms
M51 courtesy of M. Harms
Is there morethan one galaxy?
![Page 21: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
21
Distance to “nebulae” determined!
Edwin Hubble
Mt Wilson 100-inch
One of Hubble’s photographs of the Andromeda “Nebula” with
Cepheid variable marked
1924
![Page 22: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
22
Revealing a universe full of galaxies
Credit: Robert Williams and the Hubble Deep Field Team (STScI) and NASA
![Page 23: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
23
Big Question 6: Did the universe have a beginning?
Did the universehave a
beginning?
Edwin Hubble’s data showed that the more distant galaxies are moving away faster than the
closer galaxies.
Image Credit: STScI
![Page 24: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
24
Evidence of Big Bang detected!
1965
Image courtesy of WMAP: map.gsfc.nasa.gov
![Page 25: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
25
Age of the Universe calculated!
WMAP
Hubble
![Page 26: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
26
Herschel’s telescope -- used to discover
Uranus in 1781
William Herschel
In our own solar system, telescopes found planets our eyes could not see.
Are there other planets
outside of our solar system?
Big Question 7: Are there other planets?
![Page 27: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/27.jpg)
27
Courtesy of W.M. Keck Observatory
Geoff Marcy
Other worlds discovered!
Artist’s concept of extrasolar planet
Artist: Lynette Cook
1990’s through Today
![Page 28: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/28.jpg)
28
Telescopes have changed our understanding of the universe …
![Page 29: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/29.jpg)
29
Is Earth the center of
the universe?
How far are the stars?
What are they made of?
Is there morethan one galaxy?
Did the Universehave a
beginning?Are there
other planetsoutside of our solar system?
Is the Sun at the
center of the Galaxy?
answering some of the big questions…
![Page 30: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/30.jpg)
30
The Sun is at the center
of the Solar System
The stars are other Suns,
VERY far away.
There arebillions of
other galaxies!
The known universe began
13.7 billion years agoThere are
many other planetsoutside
our solar system
Solar System is about
halfway outfrom the center of
our Galaxy.
answering some of the big questions…
![Page 31: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/31.jpg)
31
… changing our understanding of our place in the universe!
From the center of the universe…
… to a very small planet in an immense expanding
universe
![Page 32: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/32.jpg)
32
And the more we learn, the more questions emerge!
What is beyond Pluto
in our Solar System?
How do stars and
planets form?How did galaxies
form?
Why is space
expanding?
Do other planets
harbor life ?
Why are there black holes
in the center of galaxies?
![Page 33: 1 How Telescopes Changed our Understanding of the Universe STScI and NASA](https://reader035.vdocument.in/reader035/viewer/2022062511/551afacb5503465e7d8b53cb/html5/thumbnails/33.jpg)
33
Chandra Illustration: CXC/NGST
Spitzer Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
GLAST Credit: General Dynamics C4 Systems
Arecibo Image Courtesy of the NAIC
Telescopes will continue to expand our understanding of our universe.
Keck Image courtesy of NASA/JPL/Caltech