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•Systems containing millions, or even billions, of stars
•Observable universe contains as many as 50 billion to 100 billion galaxies; millions of light years apart
•No two galaxies are alike, but they can be grouped
Galaxies
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•Sun is one star of hundreds of billions; we are 26,000 light years from the center
•Spiral galaxy; thin disk with a central bulge
•diameter is about 100,000 light years
Our Galaxy: The Milky Way
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•Part of Local Group: more than 30 galaxies
•Neighbors: 2 large Magellanic clouds (seen in southern hemisphere only) and Andromeda (seen in northern hemisphere)
Our Galaxy: The Milky Way
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Spiral Galaxy
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Elliptical Galaxy
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Irregular Galaxy
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• Galaxies that emit more energy than given off by their stars—lots of light
• Milky Way is not an active galaxy
• Powered by a supermassive black hole at its center
• Quasars: very distant objects that are highly luminous
Active Galaxies
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Active Galaxy
http://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo9814d/
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Big Bang (artist view)http://nothingoutofnothing.files.wordpress.com/2010/05/bigbang.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs-yWMuBNr4
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• explains the history from a tiny fraction of a second after it came into being up to the present time
• 13.7 billion years ago the universe began: superhot & superdense
• expanded from a single point very rapidly and continues to expand today
The Big Bang Model
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• became cooler as it expanded, allowing atoms to form
• atoms clumped together, mostly hydrogen
• hydrogen gathered into clouds, clouds gathered into stars, stars into galaxies over billions of years
The Big Bang Model
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Big Banghttp://3.bp.blogspot.com/-PFXq_QZOZbE/T5GokOaONTI/AAAAAAAADMY/Kl32j-Jpcqs/s1600/Big+bang+expansion+diagram+2.PNG
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• distance is increasing between galaxies (redshift)
• presence of cosmic background radiation (big bang leftovers)
Big Bang Evidence