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SCALES: COSMIC

SCALES: COSMIC. GALAXY BASICS. Bright galaxies tend to have one of two shapes. 1) Spiral galaxies, like the Andromeda Galaxy and the Whirlpool Galaxy. Stars in a spiral galaxy go around on neat (almost) circular orbits. 2) Elliptical galaxies, like the galaxy M87 .

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SCALES: COSMIC

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  1. SCALES: COSMIC

  2. GALAXY BASICS

  3. Bright galaxies tend to have one of two shapes. 1) Spiral galaxies, like the Andromeda Galaxy and the Whirlpool Galaxy.

  4. Stars in a spiral galaxy go around on neat (almost) circular orbits.

  5. 2) Ellipticalgalaxies, like the galaxy M87. There is also an abundant category of dwarf galaxies, including our neighbors LMC & SMC.

  6. Stars in an ellipticalgalaxy are on disordered, randomly oriented orbits.

  7. SCALE MODEL III

  8. Galaxy A great island of stars in space, all held together by gravity and orbiting a common center M31, Andromeda

  9. Universe The sum total of all matter and energy; that is, everything within and between all the galaxies. Most of the space between galaxies is empty.

  10. Galaxy shrunk to size of small plate That factor is 1023 or 100,000 billion billion

  11. Geshe Activity Let’s lay out the local universe, remembering that each galaxy contains a few billion stars. Use the scale model where a large galaxy is a small plate and a dwarf is a cotton ball to lay out the architecture of the nearby universe.

  12. Nearest Neighbors

  13. Local Group

  14. Virgo Cluster

  15. Nearby Universe

  16. SPACE SCALE MODEL III: This model shrinks the scale by 10 billion from the model of grains of sand as stars. Scale is a phenomenal 1:1023. • The Milky Way is a plate 10 cm across • LMC/SMC cotton balls 20 cm away • Andromeda is a plate about 3 m away • Virgo Cluster is 1000 plates 70 m away • Observable universe is 100 km across

  17. Cosmological Principle Isotropic: same at all locations Homogeneous: same in all directions Cosmology is based on the assumption that our location (MW) is typical and not unusual.

  18. Geshe Activity Cosmology assumes we have no special place in the universe, i.e. homogeneity and isotropy. With monks as galaxies, and one acting as the MW, arrange yourselves to be the same in all directions but not all locations, and vice versa.

  19. The Universe is Empty Science is Seeing The visible universe contains 1023 stars in 40 billion light years. That is 1041 km3 of star stuff in a space of 1074 km3. So only one part in 1033 or a billion trillion trillion contains anything.

  20. Scientific Visualization

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