Physics 1311 - Various images

Orbits Illustrations

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• Solar and sidereal days
• Synodic and sidereal months
• Tropical and sidereal years
• Orbital configurations
• Synodic and sidereal periods of Mercury
• Synodic and sidereal periods of Jupiter

2003 slides

• Blue Marble Earth
• Moon photo
• Gullies on Mars
• Lakes on Mars
• KBO Quaoar
• Southern Sky Observatory
• Coronal mass ejection
• Comet Borrelly
• Circumstellar disk - 2 views
• Bow shock around young star
• Crab Nebula center in X-ray
• Adaptive optics view of stellar companion
• M17 nebula
• Cone Nebula
• IC 4406 planetary nebula
• CCassiopeia A nebula - part
• M100 spiral
• "Tadpole" galaxy
• "Mice" galaxies
• Center of Milky Way in V, IR, H-alpha
• Gravitational lensing in Abell 1689
• Seyfert's Sextet
• Hoag's Object
• Deep Field galaxies
• X-ray view of center of Milky Way
• Binary black hole in X-ray
• Cosmic web simulation
• CMB from WMAP

Chapter 0

• Orion
• Celestial Sphere
• RA & Declination
• Solar & Sidereal days
• Zodiac
• Ecliptic
• Seasons
• Precession
• Triangulation
• Parallax

  Chapter 1

• Lunar eclipse
• Solar eclipse
• Solar eclipse types
• Eclipse geometry
• Planetary motions
• Ptolemy's model
• Retrograde motion
• Galilean moons
• Venus phases
• Kepler's second law
• Some properties of planetary orbits
• Some planetary properties
• Astronomical unit
• Gravitational force
• Orbits

  Chapter 2

• Andromeda galaxy
• Water wave
• Wave properties
• Charged particlas
• Electromagnetic wave
• Visible spectrum
• Electromagnetic spectrum
• Blackbody curves
• Elemental emission
• Solar spectrum
• Kirchhoff's laws
• Modern atom
• Atomic excitation
• Hydrogen spectra
• Doppler effect

  Chapter 3

• Reflecting mirror
• Refracting lens
• Image formation
• Reflectors and refractors
• Reflecting telescopes
• Mauna Kea Observatory
• Diffraction
• Atmospheric turbulence
• Radio telescoe
• Arecibo observatory
• VLA interferometer
• Astronomy at many wavelengths
• Multiple wavelengths

  Chapter 4

• Solar system
• Sun & planets
• Properties of some Solar System objects
• Comparison Jovian/Terestrial
• Inner Solar System
• Asteroid images
• Halley's Comet
• Comet trajectory
• Angular momentum
• Solar System formation
• Jovian condensation
• Temperature in early solar nebula
• Planetesimal ejection
• Planets revealed

  Chapter 5

• Properties of Earth and Moon
• Earth and Moon
• Solar and Lunar tides
• Earth's atmosphere
• Greenhouse effecr
• Seismic waves
• Global plates
• Plate drift
• Full Moon, near side
• Meteoroid impact
• Earth's magnetosphere
• Van Allen belts
• Aurora Borealis
• Moon formation

  Chapter 6

• Mercury and Venus
• Some properties of Terestrial planets, etc.
• Planetary radar
• Mercury's rotation
• Terrestrial planets' spin
• Venus up close
• Mercury up close
• Venus radar map
• Venus surface features
• Mars globe
• Mars panorama
• Terrestrial planet interiors
• Venus's atmosphere

  Chapter 7

• Jupiter
• Uranus
• Neptune
• Jovian planets
• Planetary properties
• Seasons on Uranus
• Jupiter's convection
• Jupiter's atmosphere
• Jupiter's Red Spot
• Saturn p close
• Saturn's atmosphere
• Saturn's cloud structure
• Neptune's dark spot
• Jovian interiors
• Jovian magnetic fields

  Chapter 8

• Jupiter, up close
• The large moons of the Solar System
• Galilean moons
• Galilean moon interiors
• Io
• Titan
• Titan's atmosphere
• Saturnian moons
• Moons of Uranus and Neptune
• Saturn's rings
• Roche limit
• Jovian ring systems
• Saturn's rings, up close
• Shepherd moon
• Pluto
• Pluto-Charon orbit
• KBOs compared

  Chapter 9

• The Sun
• Solar structure
• Some solar properties
• Solar interior
• Solar chromosphere
• Solar corona
• Coronal hole
• Sunspots
• Sunspots up close
• Sunspot magnetism
• Sunspot cycle
• Active corona
• Solar fusion

  Chapter 10

• Stellar parallax
• Sun's neighborhood
• Inverse square law
• Apparent magnitude
• Stellar colors and temperature
• Blackbody curves
• Stellar spectra
• Stellar sizes
• H-R diagrams of well-known stars
• H-R diagrams of nearby stars
• H-R diagrams of brightest stars
• (scans) H-R diagrams of well-known stars
• (scans) H-R diagrams of nearby stars
• (scans) H-R diagrams of brightest stars
• (scans) H-R diagrams of well-known stars + brightest stars
• (scans) H-R diagrams of well-known, brightest, nearby stars
• Stellar luminosities
• Binary spectra
• Binary light curves
• Stellar masses
• Stellar mass distribution

  Chapter 11

• Milky Way photo
• Light reddening
• Milky Way mosaic
• Galactic plane
• Emission nebulae
• Emission nebula spectrum
• Horsehead Nebula
• Hydrogen 21-cm emission
• Prestellar evolution of Sun-like star
• Interstellar cloud evolution
• Protostellar outflow
• Prestellar evolutionary tracks
• Open cluster

  Chapter 12

• Solar composition change
• Hydrogen shell burning
• Helium shell burning
• G-type star evolution
• White dwarf on H-R dagram
• Sirius binary system
• Close binary system
• High-Mass evolutionary tracks
• Heavy element fusion
• Supernova 1987a
• Two types of supernova
• Cluster evolution on the H-R diagram
• Old cluster H-R diagram
• The cycle of stellar evolution
• HR Diagram region overlay
• HR Diagram stars overlay
• HR Diagram sun evolution overlay
• HR Diagram M80 overlay
• Photograph of M80

  Chapter 13

• Neutron star
• Pulsar radiation
• Pulsar model
• Gamma ray pulsars
• Millisecond pulsar
• Gamma-ray burst models
• Einstein's Theory of Relativity
• Curved space
• Tests of General Relativity
• Gravitational redshift
• Black hole

  Chapter 14

• Galactic plane
• Spiral Galaxies
• Variable stars
• Variable stars on H-R diagram
• Period-Luminosity plot
• Variable stars on the distance ladder
• Globular cluster distribution
• Stellar populations in our Galaxy
• Infrared view of the Milky Way Galaxy
• Milky Way formation
• Milky Way spiral structure
• Self-propagating star formation
• Galaxy rotation curve
• Gravitational lensing
• Galactic center in visible light

  Chapter 15

• Elliptical galaxy shapes
• S0 galaxies
• Basic galaxy properties by type
• Galactic "Tuning Fork"
• Galaxy rotation
• Extragalactic distance ladder
• Local Group
• Neighbors of Andromeda
• Distant galaxy cluster
• Centaurus A, close up
• M87 jet
• Quasar spectrum
• Active Galactic nucleus
• Dusty donut

  Chapter 16

• Galaxy spectra
• Hubble's Law
• Cosmic distance ladder
• Galaxy rotation curves
• Galaxy survey
• The local Universe
• Gravitational lens
• Galaxy cluster lensing
• Galaxy formation
• Hubble Deep Field
• Starburst galaxies
• Galaxy interaction
• Galaxy evolution

  Chapter17

• Galaxy survey
• Olbers' Paradox
• Cosmological redshift
• Escape velocity
• Model universe
• Accelerating universe
• Cosmic age
• Curved space
• Microwave background spectrum
• Radiation-matter dominance
• Helium formation
• Radiation-matter decoupling
• Cosmic inflation
• Structure formation
• Cosmic microwave background map

  Chapter 18

• Arrow of time
• Miller-Urey experiment
• Chemical evolution
• Murchison meterite
• Stellar habitable zones
• Galactic habitable zones
• Binary star planets
• Pioneer 10 plaque
• Earth's radio leakage
• Water hole