The Milky Way

8/25/98


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The Milky Way

The Milky Way

The Milky Way

Structure of the Milky Way

Structure of the Milky Way

Harlow Shapely (1885-1972)

Shapely Mapping the MW

Shapley Maps the Galaxy

Shapley Maps the Galaxy

Shapley’s Results

What Hershel Got Wrong

The Structure of the Milky Way

Views of the Milky Way

PPT Slide

Weighing the Milky Way

Question?

Mass of the Milky Way

The Spiral of the Milky Way

The Center of the Milky Way

Galactic Center

The Galactic Center

The Nebula

2 Million Galaxies

The Nature of the Nebula

The Nebular Band Wagon

The Island Universe Again

The Curtis-Shapley Debate

Curtis

Shapley

Cepheid Variables

The Controversy Ends

The Bottom Line

The Zoo of Galaxies

Elliptical Galaxies

Spiral Galaxies

M83 SBb

NGC 4565 - Edge on Sb

Sombrero Galaxy Sa

NGC 253 - Sc

M84 - S0

What are Spiral Arms

A Density Wave

Irregular Galaxies

Large & Small Magellanic Clouds

NGC 313 - Irr

Dwarf Galaxies

Interacting Galaxies

Major Merger

Minor Merger

Stephan’s Quintet of Merging Galaxies

The Antenna

PPT Slide

The Cart Wheel Galaxy

Merger Product NGC 2685

The Masses of Galaxies

The Masses of Galaxies

Active Galaxies

Radio Galaxies

Cygnus A

M87

Seyfert Galaxies

The Black Hole Paradigm

Evidence for Black Holes

Disks Around AGN

The Distribution of Galaxies

The Local Group

Clusters of Galaxies

PPT Slide

PPT Slide

The Masses of Clusters

Super Clusters

PPT Slide

The Cosmological Principle

Author: Richard Elston

Email: elston@astro.ufl.edu

Home Page: www.astro.ufl.edu

Other information:
AST 1002 Notes for Unit 4a