1. The Hubble Space Telescope
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2. Getting to know The Hubble
Named for Edwin Hubble (astronomer)
Launched in 1990
Changed our view and understanding of the Universe.
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Hubble Facts
Hubble orbits 400 mi above the Earth
Orbits the Earth every 97 minute
Weighs 12 tons
Size of a school bus
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4. How Does Hubble Create the Images?
Images come from Hubble in black and white.
Colors are assigned based on chemical elements present
Blue = Oxygen
Red = Sulfur
Green = Hydrogen
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5. One image takes almost a year to create.
An image is made up of 48 separate images.
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The Hubble Space Telescope has helped us understand how stars are born, age, and ultimately die!
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Eagle Nebula
500 light years away
3 gigantic pillars of gas and dust
Towers 4 light years tall
Shows the early stages of a star
Known as the pillars of creation
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8. Our Solar System could fit inside any one of the forming stars! Wow!!!
Fun Fact
Our Solar System could fit inside any one of the forming stars!
Wow!!!
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Orion Nebula
1,000 light years away
Next phase in star development
Tiny dark spots are flattened disks of gases and dust from recently hatched “eggs”
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Orion Nebula
The bright orange spot in the center gathers dust and debris from the disk eventually nuclear fusion occurs and a STAR is BORN
Heat and radiation create a stellar wind sweeping away lose matter, but some debris remains eventually clumping together to become PLANETS
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11. Helix Nebula (Death of a star)
Layers of the star expand leaving behind a hot white ball of oxygen and carbon becoming a white dwarf
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Supernova
Bigger Star
Shorter the life
More violent death
Known as supernova
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13. Once a star runs out of fuel the pressure needed for balance is gone.
Every star is balanced by the inward pull of gravity and the outward pressure of heat by nuclear fusion.
Once a star runs out of fuel the pressure needed for balance is gone.
Gravity causes the star to cave in and BOOM an explosion destroying the star and everything around it.
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14. Crab Nebula (The Aftermath)
Expanding wreckage of a supernova that happened in A.D.
Explosion recorded by Chinese astronomers
Still expanding 3 million miles per hour
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Black Hole
Created by stars 4x larger than our star
Collapsed into a single point smaller than the head of pin
A hunk of matter that is so small and gravitational pull is so strong light can't escape
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16. Most stars move around at slow speeds.
Astronomers noticed that stars closer to the center of a galaxy zoom at very high speeds.
Most stars move around at slow speeds.
Stars being thrown around by something that is massive, but compact...
A BLACK HOLE
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Power Point Credits
Images from:
Information from: Naked Science “Hubble's Amazing Universe”
viewed on National Geographic Channel
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