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Of what is this a picture?. Galaxies…plus a couple of stars.

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1 Of what is this a picture?

2 Galaxies…plus a couple of stars

3 Check out images on Hubblesite.orgHubblesite.org

4 Composition of the universe 1(?) universe 200-500 billion galaxies Each galaxy has about 100 billion – 1 trillion stars – Most stars have many planets

5 Galaxy types (draw sample next to name) Spiral Barred spiral Circular Elliptical Irregular

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7 Stars within galaxies Stars do not exist outside galaxies** Within galaxies they can be in: open clusters – Spread out like chocolate chips in a cookie globular clusters (spherical cloud of stars) They are often paired up, called binary stars, which revolve around each other

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