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Welcome back to the planetarium 5th grade

Welcome back to the planetarium 5th grade. Mr. Taylor. Hubble Space Telescope. In 1990 the Hubble space telescope was launched to see objects in space more clearly In the last 20+ years it has made many discoveries age of the universe black holes in the center of all galaxies

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Welcome back to the planetarium 5th grade

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  1. Welcome back to the planetarium 5th grade Mr. Taylor

  2. Hubble Space Telescope • In 1990 the Hubble space telescope was launched to see objects in space more clearly • In the last 20+ years it has made many discoveries • age of the universe • black holes in the center of all galaxies • How stars and planets form • The most distant galaxies It circles the Earth every 90 minutes The Spitzer space telescope and the Chandra space telescope also study the universe

  3. Hubble

  4. Hubble

  5. Hubble

  6. Hubble’s greatest hits

  7. Hubble’s greatest hits • Hubble recently helped discover planets around other stars and analyze the atmosphere of several

  8. Kepler has found over 1200 planets around different stars

  9. Where are we? - 200 billion stars in the Milky Way - contains a minimum of 100 billion planets

  10. new planets being discovered 54 are Earth sized and in habitable zone

  11. Space Exploration 1957 – the launch of Sputnik by Russia started the space race

  12. April 12, 1961 • Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Last year was the 50th anniversary of the first manned space flight

  13. Apollo missions • There were 17 Apollo mission to the moon, including 6 that landed on the moon and performed many experiments

  14. Earthrise from Apollo 16

  15. Space Shuttle • There were over 130 space shuttle missions from 1981-2011 • Jobs for the space shuttle include launching satellites, performing science experiments, and bringing astronauts to the space station

  16. Space shuttles • Were retired after 30 years of space flights including 135 separate launches • Discovery flew its last mission in late February, Endeavor on April 29th, and Atlantis was the last shuttle to fly on July 8th, 2011 • Two space shuttles have been lost – Challenger in 1986 and Columbia in 2003

  17. Discovery

  18. Atlantis

  19. Space Station • The space station has been in orbit around Earth since 1998 and is run by many different nations including the US • There are several astronauts there now

  20. Space Station

  21. Space Station – spacewalk 5/22/11

  22. Soyuz launch 4/5/11

  23. Constellation Mission • Constellation will fly first to the space station, then the Moon, and finally Mars

  24. Mercury and Venus The Messenger spacecraft is orbiting around Mercury and studying the smallest planet In 1990 Magellan used RADAR to map the surface of Venus

  25. MESSENGER mission • In March became first spacecraft to orbit the planet Mercury First image from orbit

  26. Mars Missions • We have sent several unmanned missions to Mars to study its past and present history, and the possibility of humans visiting some day

  27. Current Events – Spirit is “dead”

  28. “Face” of Curiosity Mars rover “Curiosity” • Curiosity is twice as long (about 2.8 meters, or 9 feet) and four times as heavy as Spirit and Opportunity (size of a Mini-Cooper) • Has a new way of landing • 10 tools to examine rocks, soil and the atmosphere • 6 wheels • Nuclear battery instead of solar powered

  29. Missions to the Outer Planets • Voyager I and II missions launched in 1977 to study Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune • Both spacecraft have left the solar system, but continue to send information back to us from about 10 billion miles away

  30. Missions to the Outer Planets • The Galileo mission visited and studied Jupiter and its moons in 1995 • Cassini-Huygens is currently studying Saturn and its largest moon Titan

  31. Missions to the Outer Planets The Galileo mission studied Jupiter’s moons including the 4 largest moons: Io, Europa, Ganymede, and Callisto

  32. Titan Saturn’s largest moon Titan is the second biggest moon in the solar system, is bigger than Mercury, and has an atmosphere and weather – even ice volcanoes

  33. Pluto The New Horizon mission was launched to study Pluto in 2006, and will reach Pluto in 2015. It is the fastest spacecraft ever launched and flies at 50,000 mph.

  34. Other solar system objects studied • Comets • Asteroids • The sun • Earth’s atmosphere

  35. Winter constellations:

  36. In the sky this week:

  37. In the sky tonight: • Sirius is not only the brightest star after the Sun, but at a distance of 8.6 light-years, it's also the nearest star that's visible to the naked eye from mid-northern latitudes. • 8.6 light years = 50,000,000,000,000 miles Canis Major: The Big Dog

  38. In the night sky • The 6 brightest objects in the night sky can be seen from Earth right now: • the Moon (seriously bright!)Venus (magnitude -4.3)Jupiter (magnitude -2.2)Sirius (magnitude -1.4)Mars (magnitude -1.2)Mercury (magnitude -1.2 and fading)

  39. In the sky this week:

  40. In the sky this week:

  41. In the sky this week: • Jupiter, Venus, Mars • Waning gibbous moon • Pegasus, Andromeda, Taurus, Orion • Cepheus, Cassiopeia, The “dippers”, Draco • Mars rover “Curiosity” – Lands 8/6/12

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