The Art of Deep Space

Ted Barr’s PaintingsBarr 2008 Presentation editor – Daniel Vahdat

The Origin of The Universe

• Our known universe exists 14 billion years

• It started in The Big Bang which echoes through space till nowadays

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The Formation of Galaxies

• The first galaxies were created 100 million years after the big bang

• The current knowledge speaks about more than billion galaxies in the universe.

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Types of Galaxies

• There are five basic types of galaxies. In the

upcoming slides we will view some of them.

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Spiral Galaxy

• The Pinwheel Galaxy is located 27,000,000 ly from Earth. In the direction of the constellation Ursa Major.

• It’s diameter is 170,000 ly.

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Spiral Galaxy

• The Pinwheel Galaxy is located 27,000,000 ly from Earth. In the direction of the constellation Ursa Major.

• It’s diameter is 170,000 ly.

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Ring Galaxy

• The Hoag galaxy is located 600,000,000 ly. In the constellation Serpens.

• Ring galaxies are formed when a smaller galaxy passes through the center of a larger galaxy.

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Ring Galaxy

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Andromeda Spiral Galaxy

• The Andromeda Is located 2,500,000 ly from us and its our closest neighbour.

• the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are

approaching one another at a speed of 120 kilometers per second. in about 2.5 billion years the the two galaxies will likely merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.

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Elliptical Galaxy

• NGC 5253 is an irregular elliptical galaxy in the constellation of Centaurus

• the Andromeda Galaxy and the Milky Way are

approaching one another at a speed of 120 kilometers per second. in about 2.5 billion years the the two galaxies will likely merge to form a giant elliptical galaxy.

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Elliptical Galaxy

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Lenticular Galaxy

• The Spindle Galaxy lies in the Northern constellation Draco, at a distance of 44 million light-years.

• It has a diameter of roughly 60,000 light-years only two-thirds the diameter of the Milky Way, although its mass is similar to our galaxy.

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HH47

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• 5 billion km of star dust.

Nebula• A nebula is an interstellar cloud of dust,

hydrogen gas and plasma. It is the first stage of a star's cycle.

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Nebula

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The Horse Head Nebula

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The Horse Head Nebula

• The Horse Head Nebula is called Barnard 33 and is part of the constellation Orion.

• It is located 1,500 ly from Earth.

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The Eagle Nebula

• Three enormous pillars of old gases and dust.

• The longest of the pillars is 1 ly in length

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The Eagle Nebula

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Eta Carinae Nebula

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• The largest star forming region in the Milky Way

The Tarantula Nebula

• Located in the large magellanic cloud.

• It is located 180,000 ly from Earth.

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The never ending story of the universe is to be continued in

the next exhibition.

Ted Barr 2008