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Space

Space . The final frontier. The Universe. Includes all existing matter, energy, and space Includes all planets (can’t count them), solar systems (billions), galaxies (billions), stars (can’t count them). Galaxies. Huge groups of stars held together by gravity May look like a foggy haze

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Space

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  1. Space The final frontier

  2. The Universe • Includes all existing matter, energy, and space • Includes all planets (can’t count them), solar systems (billions), galaxies (billions), stars (can’t count them)

  3. Galaxies • Huge groups of stars held together by gravity • May look like a foggy haze • Many stars included • Universe is everything in existence

  4. Edwin Hubble • Astronomer • Studied galaxies and classified them • Three main types of galaxies • Galaxies rotate on an imaginary axis • Hubble discovered galaxies are moving away from one another.

  5. Spiral Galaxy • Have arms swirling • Look like a pinwheel

  6. Spiral Galaxies

  7. Spiral Galaxies

  8. Irregular Galaxy • Galaxies have no shape • No arms • Blob

  9. Irregular Galaxies

  10. Irregular Galaxies

  11. Elliptical Galaxy • Most common • Shaped like a swished ball • Oval in shape

  12. Elliptical Galaxies

  13. Light year = the distance light travels in one year • Speed of light = 186,000 miles per second • Light year = 5.9 trillion miles • Why do we measure space in light years? • Space is so large, we need to measure in a large unit.

  14. The Milky Way (Our home) • Is a Spiral Galaxy • Has two main arms • 3,000 light years in diameter (center bulge) • Our Solar System is 26,000 light years from the center

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