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The night sky

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Stars, galaxies and planets

Dept. of Physics, Bangalore UniversityBangalore [email protected]

B. A. Kagali

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Round Earth

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The night sky

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Rotating stars

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December sky

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Orion constellation

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Open cluster

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Globular cluster

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Deep field

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Galaxy edge

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Dust lanes in the galaxy

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Celestial sphere

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Solar image

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Solar carona

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Cross section of the sun

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The solar system

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Orion nebula

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Eagle nebula

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In visible light

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In infrared

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Birthplace of stars: Molecular Clouds

Ophiuchus Giant Molecular Cloud (by Loke Tan)

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Formation of stars

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‘Isolated’ Star Formation

M.Hogerheijde1998, after Shu et al. 1987

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Dust lanes

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Visible and IR images

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Emerging jets

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Young stellar objects

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Pleides cluster stars

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Path on HR diagram

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Paths vs. masses

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Formation of sun

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H R diagram

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M N Saha

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Adult stars

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Small mass star evolution

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Red giant's size

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Sirius A and Sirius B

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S Chandrasekhar

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Planetary nebula

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Another planetary nebula

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Neutron star formation

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Nova

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Structure of massive stars

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Formation of a nova

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Supernova formation

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Aftermath of SN explosion

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Crab nebula

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Crab nebula radiation

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A pulsar

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Supernova radiation

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End stages of stars

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Light near a black hole

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SN in another galaxy

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Spiral galaxy

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Sombrero galaxy

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A galaxy cluster

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Our solar system

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Mercury

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Venus

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Mars

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Jupiter

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Saturn

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Uranus

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Neptune

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Pluto and Charon

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Meteors

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Asteroids

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A comet

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Craters on earth

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“ The most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible !!”

…Albert Einstein