Our Fantastic Universe

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Our Fantastic Universe

• By Mercedez Mason

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4 Parts of our Universe

• Galaxies
• Black Holes
• Comets
• Asteroids

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GALAXIES

• Galaxies have 4 shapes
• ELLIPTICAL
• LENTICULAR
• SPIRAL
• ILLREGULAR

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Elliptical Galaxies

• Andromeda Galaxy
• M32

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Spiral Galaxies

• Andromeda Galaxy
• M31

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Lenticular Galaxies

• Lenticular Galaxy
• M84

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FACTS ON GALAXIES

• 77 of the galaxies are spiral
• The elliptical galaxies are named after their
  shapes
• There are 100,000 million stars in our galaxy
• Elliptical galaxies Lenticular galaxies have no
  gas in them so all the stars in them are old
• The Milky Way is the biggest galaxy

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THE MILKY WAY

• The Milky Way is a group of misty stars that can
  be seen on a clear night
• The Milky Way has 2 galaxies orbiting nearby they
  are the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud.
• The Milky Way is an irregular Galaxy

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Facts on Black Holes

• If you are sucked into a black hole you will be
  spagettified
• It sucks everything that gets near it
• Black Holes are endpoints of stars
• We are supposed to have 11 planets but a black
  hole sucked in 2 of them, leaving us with 9

• If a black hole was close to a normal star the
  black hole would suck it in
• In a hundredth second light travels 3000
  kilometers,THATS one fourth of EARTHS diameter!

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BLACK HOLES

• This black hole right here is very strange
• This one here is very long
• The red dot in the center of this black hole is
  the singularity

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Comet Facts

• The word comet comes from the Latin word that
  means hair
• They are made out of small meteors, ices, dust,
  gases

• A comets head can be bigger than Neptune or
  Uranus
• It doesnt get a tail until it comes very close
  to the sun

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COMETS

• The person to first see Halley was Edmund Halley
• This is a picture of Halley coming to Earth in
  1835
• Comet Halley appeared on Earth 6 times-1682,
  1759, 1835, 1909, 1910, 1986.

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Asteroids

• Shown on the left is the first asteroid named
  Ceres, discovered in 1801 by Giuseppe Piazzi
• Ceres is 480 miles long
• Ceres is the biggest asteroid

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More Asteroids

• Pallas was 2nd to be discovered, in 1802
• Juno was 3rd to be discovered, in 1804
• Vesta was 4th to be discovered, in 1807
• Vesta is visible with naked eye

• They are rocky and metallic
• They range sizes from 10-100 kilometer
• Eros was discovered in 1898
• Asteraea was discovered in 1845

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More On Asteroids

• Some asteroids are 100,000 million years old
• Asteroids are rocks that never formed a planet
  because of Jupiters gravity
• Asteroids are located between Mars and Jupiter,
  in asteroid belt
• There are more than 40,000 asteroids