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Galaxies
Cities of Stars
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Characteristics of Galaxies• Most stars reside in dense groups known as
galaxies. • These 'island universes' come in many shapes
and sizes, and contain anywhere from a few million stars to a trillion or more.
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• astronomers have found that galaxies come in many shapes, sizes, and colors.
• The universe may contain 100 billion galaxies or more.
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• Galaxies also contain vast clouds of gas and dust, which are the raw materials for new stars.
• Galaxies also contain vast quantities of "dark matter" -- matter that produces no detectable light or other form of energy, but that reveals its presence through its gravitational pull on the visible stars and gas.
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• In theory, if the universe lasts long enough, the galaxies will die. Their stars will burn out. • Some of the stars will drift away, but
some will fall into giant "black holes" that lurk in the hearts of most galaxies. • Eventually, all galaxies will disappear
from sight.
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Types of Galaxies• Galaxies can be classified in several
ways. The most common is a system developed by Edwin Hubble, which is based on the shapes of galaxies
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Spirals• Spirals are flat disks of stars with
bright bulges in their centers. Spiral arms wrap around these bulges.• In some spirals, a wave organizes the
stars in the center into a bar. The arms of barred galaxies spiral outward from the ends of the bar.
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Elliptical• they look like fat, fuzzy footballs. Instead of
spreading out into a thin disk, as they do in spirals, the stars in ellipticals wrap completely around the galaxy's heart in all directions.
• most of them appear to contain "supermassive" black holes at their hearts
• The largest galaxies in the universe are giant ellipticals
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Irregulars• The final class of galaxies contains a
hodge-podge of shapes -- anything that looks neither spiral nor elliptical.
• These are the irregulars. • These galaxies have no identifiable form. • Their stars, gas, and dust spread
randomly. • These are the smallest galaxies
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Our Galaxy: The Milky Way• The Milky Way consists of a bulge of
stars in the core, a thick bar of stars flanking the core, and bright spiral arms around the core• The Milky Way is a spiral galaxy• Our solar system is about 27,000
light-years from its center.• 100,000 light years in total diameter
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The Milky way…
• Milky Way is part of a cluster of galaxies called the local group. • A group of 22 galaxies make up
this cluster• Includes the Andromeda Galaxy
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Components….• Our galaxy is full of dust. • Elements like silicon, carbon, and iron are
forged in the cores of stars and released into space late in the stars' lives.
• The dust is concentrated in the Milky Way's disk.
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Structure…• Disk contains between 200 billion and 400
billion stars. • A black hole perhaps four million times as
massive as the Sun sits in the middle of the Milky Way.
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Where are we? • Our solar system is located in the outer
reaches of one of the spiral arms. • It takes approximately 200-250 million
years for our solar system to orbit once around the Milky Way.
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• There are no photos of the Milky Way galaxy taken from outside. That would require a space probe to be able to get beyond the galaxy, but that hasn't yet been done. • What do you think is the most common
type of galaxy?• What do you think is the brightest type
of galaxy?